Talk:Skew normal distribution

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I created the article on skew normal distributions today... It is highly useful empirically when you have a distribution that is skewed away from normal -- it gives you a parametric model, which can be then used for confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, etc. Velocidex (talk) 01:29, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Nice work! I was going to ask you about the pdf... but you fixed it so fast! Josuechan (talk) 07:03, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

BTW, do you happen to know how to generate a draw from this distribution? any references? Josuechan (talk) 07:06, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Same way you can draw from any other distribution. Check out rejection sampling. Velocidex (talk) 23:54, 2 April 2008 (UTC)