Publications of Adelchi Azzalini
(Note: more detailed information on material related to the `skew-normal
distribution and alike' is available on
a separate page
)
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Adelchi Azzalini (2023).
On the use of ordered factors as explanatory variables.
Stat 12:e624. [Open access] DOI: 10.1002/sta4.624
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Stefano Franco and Adelchi Azzalini (2023).
The information matrix of the bivariate extended skew-normal distribution.
arXiv:2309.10502
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Kesen Wang, Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Adelchi Azzalini and Marc G. Genton (2023).
On the non-identifiability of unified skew-normal distributions.
Stat 12:e597. DOI: 10.1002/sta4.597
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Marco Zanin, Adelchi Azzalini, Jayamini Ranaweera, Dan Weaving,
Joshua Darrall-Jones and Gregory Roe (2023).
The contributing external load factors to internal load during small-sided games
in professional rugby union players.
Frontiers in Sports and Active Living, 5.
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Marco Zanin, Adelchi Azzalini, Jayamini Ranaweera, Kevin Till,
Joshua Darrall-Jones and Gregory Roe (2022).
Designing a small-sided game to elicit attacking tactical behaviour in
professional rugby union forwards.
J. Sports Sciences 40, 2304-2314.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Adelchi Azzalini (2022).
Some properties of the unified skew-normal distribution.
Statistical Papers 63, 461-487. [Open access]
Preprint available at
arXiv.org:2011.06316 in 2020.
Corrigendum in March 2023.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2021).
An overview on the progeny of the skew-normal family - A personal perspective.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 188, 104851.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Adelchi Azzalini (2021).
A formulation for continuous mixtures of multivariate normal distributions.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, vol.185, 104780.
Preprint available at
arXiv.org:2003.13076
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Adelchi Azzalini and Mahdi Salehi (2020).
Some computational aspects of maximum likelihood estimation of the
skew-t distribution, in
Computational and Methodological Statistics and Biostatistics,
edited by A. Bekker et al. (p. 3-28).
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42196-0_1
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Adelchi Azzalini (2020).
Further results on a class of distributions which includes the normal ones
– Looking back.
Statistica, LXXX, 161-175.
Annotations and corrigenda to the 1986 paper with the same root title,
in connection with its reprint.
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Chris Adcock and Adelchi Azzalini (2020).
A selective overview of skew-elliptical and related distributions and
of their applications.
Symmetry, 12, 118. DOI: 10.3390/sym12010118.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle, Adelchi Azzalini, Clécio S. Ferreira and
Karol Santoro (2020).
A two-piece normal measurement error model.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 144, 106863.
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2019.106863.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Hyoung-Moon Kim and Hea-Jung Kim (2019).
Sample selection models for discrete and other non-Gaussian response variables
.
Stat. Methods & Appl., 28:27-56.
Available online 30 March 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s10260-018-0427-1
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Mahdi Salehi and Adelchi Azzalini (2018).
On application of Kotz distribution and some of its extensions
Metron, 76:177-201. DOI: 10.1007/s40300-018-0137-3
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giuliana Regoli (2018).
On symmetry-modulated distributions: revisiting an old result and a step further
Stat 7:e171. DOI: 10.1002/sta4.171
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Adelchi Azzalini (2016).
Combining local and global smoothing in multivariate density estimation.
Stat 5:338-348. DOI: 10.1002/sta4.129
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Adelchi Azzalini (2016).
Flexible distributions as an approach to robustness: the skew-t case.
In: C. Agostinelli, A. Basu, P. Filzmoser and D. Mukherjee, editors,
Recent Advances in Robust Statistics: Theory and Applications (pp. 1-16).
Proceedings volume of ICORS 2015. Springer India.
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Peter E. Jupp, Giuliana Regoli and Adelchi Azzalini (2016).
A general setting for symmetric distributions and their relationship to
general distributions.
Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 148:107-119.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2016.02.011
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giovanna Menardi (2016).
Density-based clustering with non-continuous data.
Computational Statistics, 31:771-798.
DOI: 10.1007/s00180-016-0644-8.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Ryan P. Browne, Marc G. Genton and Paul D. McNicholas (2016)
On nomenclature for, and the relative merits of, two formulations of skew
distributions.
Statistics & Probability Letters, 110:201-206.
Available online 21 December 2015. DOI:10.1016/j.spl.2015.12.008.
Publicly available version at
http://arxiv.org/abs/1402.5431
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Adelchi Azzalini (2015).
Skew-normal family of distributions.
In Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online. J. Wiley & Sons.
DOI:10.1002/9781118445112.stat01205.pub2.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2015).
A formulation in modal clustering based on upper level sets.
In Christian M. Hennig, Marina Meila, Fionn Murtagh and Roberto Rocci, editors,
Handbook of Cluster Analysis, chapter 17, pages 361-382.
Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Marc G. Genton (2015).
Discussion of a paper by M. C. Jones.
Intern. Statistical Review, 83:198-202.
Available online 24 Sept 2014.
DOI:10.1111/insr.12072.
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Giovanna Menardi and Adelchi Azzalini (2014).
An advancement in clustering via nonparametric density estimation.
Statistics & Computing, 24:753-767.
DOI:10.1007/s11222-013-9400-x.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giuliana Regoli (2014).
Modulation of symmetry for discrete variables and some extensions.
Stat, 3:56-67.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giovanna Menardi (2014).
Clustering via nonparametric density estimation: The R package pdfCluster.
J. Statistical Software, 57(11).
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Adelchi Azzalini with the collaboration of Antonella Capitanio (2014).
The Skew-Normal and Related Families.
IMS monographs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle (2013).
Maximum penalized likelihood estimation for skew-normal and
skew-t distributions.
J. Stat. Planning & Inference, 143:419-433.
DOI:10.1016/j.jspi.2012.06.022.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Adelchi Azzalini (2013).
The centred parameterization and related quantities of the skew-t
distribution.
J. Multiv. Anal., 113:73-90.
Online since 12 June 2011.
DOI:10.1016/j.jmva.2011.05.016.
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M. Helena Gonçalves, M. Salomé Cabral, and Adelchi Azzalini (2012).
The R package 'bild' for the analysis of binary longitudinal data.
J. Statistical Software, 46(9).
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Adelchi Azzalini and Bruno Scarpa (2012).
Data Analysis and Data Mining: An Introduction.
Oxford University Press (USA), New York.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giuliana Regoli (2012).
The work of Fernando de Helguero on non-normality arising from selection.
Chilean J. Statist., 3:113-129.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giuliana Regoli (2012).
Some properties of skew-symmetric distributions.
Ann. Inst. Statistical Mathematics, pages 857-879.
Available online 09 Sept 2011.
DOI:10.1007/s10463-011-0338-5.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2012).
Selection models under generalized symmetry settings.
Ann. Inst. Statistical Mathematics, 64:737-750.
Available online 05 March 2011.
DOI:10.1007/s10463-011-0328-7.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2011).
Skew-symmetric families of distributions.
In International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, volume 19, pages
1344-1346. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_524.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2011).
Skew normal distribution.
In International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science, volume 19, pages
1342-1344. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg.
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_523.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Marc G. Genton, and Bruno Scarpa (2010).
Invariance-based estimating equations for skew-symmetric distributions.
Metron, LXVIII:353-377.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Antonella Bacchieri (2010).
A prospective combination of phase II and phase III in drug development.
Metron, 68:347-269.
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M. Helena Gonçalves and Adelchi Azzalini (2008).
Using Markov chains for marginal modelling for binary longitudinal data
in an exact likelihood approach.
Metron, LXVI:157-181.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Marc G. Genton (2008).
Robust likelihood methods based on the skew-t and related distributions.
Int. Stat. Rev., 76:106-129.
DOI:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2007.00016.x.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2008).
Discussion: The t family and their close and distant relations.
J. Korean Statistical Society, 37:303-304.
Comments to the discussion paper by M. C. Jones.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Adelchi Azzalini (2008).
The centred parametrization for the multivariate skew-normal distribution.
J. Multiv. Anal., 99:1362-1382.
Corrigendum at vol. 100 (2009), p. 816.
DOI:10.1016/j.jmva.2008.01.020.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Nicola Torelli (2007).
Clustering via nonparametric density estimation.
Statistics & Computing, 17:71-80.
DOI:10.1007/s11222-006-9010-y.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Marc G. Genton (2007).
On Gauss's characterization of the normal distribution.
Bernoulli, 13:169-174.
DOI:10.3150/07-BEJ5166.
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J. R. Crawford, P. H. Garthwaite, A. Azzalini, D. C. Howell, and K. R.
Laws.
Testing for
a deficit in single-case studies: effect of departures from normality.
Neuropsychologia, 44:666-677.
DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.06.001.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2006).
Some recent depelopments in the theory of distributions and their
applications.
In Atti della XLIII Riuninone Scientifica, Società Italiana di
Statistica, volume Sessioni plenarie, pages 51-64, Padova,
Italia, 2006. CLEUP.
Torino, 14-16 giugno 2006.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2006).
Skew-normal family of distributions.
In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, volume 12, pages 7780-7785.
J. Wiley & Sons, New York, 2nd edition.
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Reinaldo B. Arellano-Valle and Adelchi Azzalini (2006).
On the unification of families of skew-normal distributions.
Scand. J. Stat., 33:561-574.
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9469.2006.00503.x.
Corrigendum in vol. 49 (2022), 1418--1419.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2005).
The skew-normal distribution and related multivariate families (with
discussion).
Scand. J. Stat., 32:159-188.
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00426.x.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2005).
Rejoinder.
Scand. J. Stat., pages 199-200.
Rejoinder to the discussion of the author's paper (pp. 159-188).
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9469.2005.00428.x.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2005).
Book review: «In All Likelihood» by Yudi Pawitan.
Stat. Medicine, 24:157-158.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Bruno Scarpa (2004).
Analisi dei dati e data mining.
Springer-Verlag Italia, Milano.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Monica Chiogna (2004).
Some results on the stress-strength model for skew-normal variates.
Metron, LXII:315-326.
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Antonella Capitanio, Adelchi Azzalini, and Elena Stanghellini (2003).
Graphical models for skew-normal variates.
Scand. J. Stat., 30:129-144.
DOI:10.1111/1467-9469.00322.
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Adrian W. Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini (2003).
Computational aspects of nonparametric smoothing with illustrations from
the `sm' library.
Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 42:545-560.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Tomas Dal Cappello, and Samuel Kotz (2003).
Log-skew-normal and log-skew-t distributions as models for
family income data.
J. Income Distribution, 11:13-21.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Antonella Capitanio (2003).
Distributions generated by perturbation of symmetry with emphasis on a
multivariate skew-t distribution.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. B, 65:367-389.
Full-length paper at
arxiv:0911.2342
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Adelchi Azzalini (2002).
Comment on `Skewed multivariate models related to hidden truncation and/or
selective reporting'.
Test, 11:36-36.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2001).
«Statistical Inference: an Integrated Approach» by H. S. Migon and
O. Gamerman.
Stat. in Medicine, 20:1305-1305.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2001).
A note on regions of given probability of the skew-normal distribution.
Metron, 59:27-34.
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Adelchi Azzalini (2001).
Inferenza statistica, una presentazione basata sul concetto di
verosimiglianza, 2$^a$ edizione.
Springer-Verlag Italia, Milano.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Peter Hall (2000).
Reducing variability by using bootstrap methods with qualitative constraints.
Biometrika, 87:895-906.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Antonella Capitanio (1999).
Statistical applications of the multivariate skew normal distribution.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. B, 61:579-602.
Full-length paper at
arXiv:0911.2093
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Adelchi Azzalini (1999).
Salvan test for normality.
In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, update volume 3, page 551.
J. Wiley & Sons, New York, USA, 1999.
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Adelchi Azzalini.
The matrix inversion lemma.
In Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, update volume 3, pages
440-441. J. Wiley & Sons, New York.
Reprinted in volume 7, pp. 4612-3,
of the second edition of the work (2006).
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Adelchi Azzalini (1999).
Some preliminary remarks on the `audit report'.
Technical Report ISIS/SAIA/146/99, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1999).
Bayesian methods for auditing with a scheme for recursive updates.
Technical Report ISIS/SAIA/147/99, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1999).
Comparison of methods for confidence intervals in audit problems.
Technical Report ISIS/SAIA/148/99, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1999).
Combination of multiple sites auditing: a Bayesian approach.
Technical Report ISIS/SAIA/149/99, Joint Research Centre of the European
Commission.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1998).
Checking the validity of parametric models using nonparametric estimation:
the PLRT approach.
In 30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and
Statistics, volume 30, pages 383-390.
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Adrian W. Bowman and Adelchi Azzalini (1997).
Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis: The Kernel Approach
With S-Plus Illustrations.
Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Monica Chiogna (1997).
S-plus tools for the analysis of repeated measures data.
Computational Statistics, 12:53-66.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Alessandra Salvan (1996).
Apppunti di algebra lineare.
Edizioni Cortina, Padova.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Luigi Pace, and Alessandra Salvan (1996).
Metodi asintotici per l'inferenza basata sulla verosimiglianza.
In Atti della XXXVIII Riunione scientifica, Società Italiana di
Statistica, volume 1, pages 295-306. Maggioli Editore.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Alessandra Dalla Valle (1996).
The multivariate skew-normal distribution.
Biometrika, 83:715-726.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1996).
Statistical Inference: Based on the Likelihood.
Chapman & Hall, London.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Peter J. Diggle (1994).
Prediction of soil respiration rates from temperature, moisture content
and soil type.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. C (Appl.Stat.), 43:505-526.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1994).
Logistic regression for autocorrelated data with application to repeated
measures.
Biometrika, 81:767-775.
Corrigendum: vol. 84 (1997), p. 989.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1994).
Logistic regression and other discrete data models for serially correlated
observations.
J. Italian Statistical Society, 3:169-179.
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Marco Minozzo and Adelchi Azzalini (1993).
On the unimodality of the exact likelihood function for normal AR(2)
series.
J. Time Series Analysis, 14:497-509.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Adrian W. Bowman (1993).
On the use of nonparametric regression for checking linear relationships.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. B, 55:549-557.
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Claudio Capiluppi and Adelchi Azzalini (1992).
META plus GLIM, an extended data analysis environment.
In Statistical modelling, pages 35-43. North-Holland, Amsterdam.
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Adelchi Azzalini and D. M. Titterington (1992).
Contribution to the discussion of a paper by Hall & Johnston.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. B, 54:517-518.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Anna Chiara Frigo (1991).
An explicit nearly unbiased estimate of the AR(1) parameter for repeated
measurements.
J. Time Series Analysis, 12:273-281.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Adrian W. Bowman (1991).
Nonparametric regression methods for repeated measurements.
In Nonparametric Functional Estimation and Related Topics, volume NATO
ASI series C, No. 335, pages 377-387. Kluwer Academic Publishers,
Dordrecht, NL.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Adrian W. Bowman (1990).
A look at some data on the Old Faithful Geyser.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. C (Appl.Stat.), 39:357-365.
ISSN 0035-9254.
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Adelchi Azzalini, Adrian W. Bowman, and Wolfgang Härdle (1989).
On the use of nonparametric regression for model checking.
Biometrika, 76:1-11.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1989).
An analysis of variance table for repeated
measurements with unknown autoregressive parameter.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. C (Appl.Stat.), 38:402-411.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Alessandra Giovagnoli (1987).
Some optimal designs for repeated measurements with autoregressive errors.
Biometrika, 74:725-734.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1987).
Growth curves analysis for patterned covariance matrices.
In M. L. Puri, J. P. Vilaplana and W. Wertz, editors, New Perspectives in
Theoretical and Applied Statistics, pages 63-74.
J. Wiley & Sons, New York, USA,.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1986).
Further results on a class of distributions which includes the normal ones.
Statistica, XLVI:199-208.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1986).
Alcuni risultati sull'effetto dell'autocorrelazione quando i dati sono
ritenuti indipendenti.
In Scritti in onore di Francesco Brambilla, volume I, pages 1-9.
Bocconi Comunicazione, Milano, Italia.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1985).
A class of distributions which includes the normal ones.
Scand. J. Stat., 12:171-178.
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Adelchi Azzalini and David R. Cox (1984).
Two new tests associated with analysis of variance.
J. Roy. Stat. Soc., ser. B, 46:335-343.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1984).
A Markov process with Beta marginal distribution.
Statistica, XLIV, 241-243.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1984).
Estimation and hypothesis testing for collections of autoregressive time
series.
Biometrika, 71:85-90.
Corrigendum at vol. 74 (1987), p. 667.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1983).
Maximum likelihood estimation of order m for stationary stochastic
processes.
Biometrika, 70:381-387.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1982).
Approximate filtering of parameter driven processes.
J. Time Series Analysis, 3:219-223.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Giancarlo Diana (1981).
The distribution of Kolmogorov's statistic for discrete variates.
Metron, 39:133-140.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1981).
Replicated observations of low order autoregressive time series.
J. Time Series Analysis, 2:63-70.
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Adelchi Azzalini (1981).
A note on the estimation of a distribution function and quantiles by a
kernel method.
Biometrika, 68:326-328.
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Adelchi Azzalini, G. Diana, and P. Iannotta (1978).
Analisi statistica di generatori di numeri pseudo-casuali.
L'Elaborazione Automatica, 2:121-144.
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Adelchi Azzalini and Fortunato Pesarin (1976).
Verifica d'ipotesi statistica non parametrica.
L'Elaborazione Automatica, 2(53-77).