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param2moment (version 0.1.3)

moment2sn: Solve Skew-Normal Parameters from Moments

Description

Solve skew-normal parameters from mean, standard deviation and skewness.

Usage

moment2sn(mean = 0, sd = 1, skewness)

Value

Function moment2sn() returns a length-3 numeric

vector

\((\xi, \omega, \alpha)\).

Arguments

mean

numeric scalar, mean \(\mu\), default value 0

sd

numeric scalar, standard deviation \(\sigma\), default value 1

skewness

numeric scalar

Details

Function moment2sn() solves the location \(\xi\), scale \(\omega\) and slant \(\alpha\) parameters of skew-normal distribution, from user-specified mean \(\mu\) (default 0), standard deviation \(\sigma\) (default 1) and skewness.

Examples

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moment2sn(skewness = .3)

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