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A review of Student's t distribution and its generalizations

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EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS
Volume 58, Issue 3, Pages 1461-1490

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PHYSICA-VERLAG GMBH & CO
DOI: 10.1007/s00181-018-1570-0

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Cumulative distribution function; Moments; Probability density function

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The Student's t distribution is the most popular model for economic and financial data. In recent years, many generalizations of the Student's t distribution have been proposed. This paper provides a review of generalizations, including software available for them. A real data application is presented to compare some of the reviewed distributions.

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