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Testing the mean of skewed distributions applying the maximum likelihood estimator

I-Shiang TzengDepartment of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, New Taipei City, Taiwan;Department of Statistics, National Taipei University, Taipei, Taiwan;Department of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, TaiwanCorrespondence[email protected]
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Li-Shya ChenDepartment of Statistics, National Chengchi University, Taipei, TaiwanView further author information
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Guohua ZouChinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaView further author information
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Article: 1588191 | Received 19 Feb 2018, Accepted 23 Feb 2019, Published online: 06 May 2019

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