• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.265-274
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• 2004

The paper extends earlier work on the skew-normal distribution, a family of distributions including normal, but with extra parameter to regulate skewness. The present work introduces a singly truncated parametric family that strictly includes a truncated normal distribution, and studies its properties, with special emphasis on the relation with bivariate normal distribution.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.879-885
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• 1998

In this paper, we propose the approximate maximum likelihood estimators (AMLE) of the location and the scale parameter of the singly left truncated normal distribution. We compare the proposed estimators with the simpler estimators (SE) in terms of the mean squared error (MSE) through Monte Carlo methods.