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In this paper a new approach is considered for studying the triangular distribution using the theoretical development behind Skew distributions. Triangular distribution are obtained by a reparametrization of usual triangular distribution. Main probabilistic properties of the distribution are studied, including moments, asymmetry and kurtosis coefficients, and an stochastic representation, which provides a simple and efficient method for generating random variables. Moments estimation is also implemented. Finally, a simulation study is conducted to illustrate the behavior of the estimation approach proposed.En este trabajo se considera un nuevo enfoque para el estudio de la distribución triangular usando el desarrollo teórico detrás de las distribuciones Skew. La distribución triangular aquí entregada se obtiene por reparametrización de la distribución triangular usual. Se estudian las principales propiedades probabilísticas, incluidos los momentos, coeficientes de asimetría y kurtosis; además, se muestra una representación estocástica para el modelo estudiado, que proporciona un método sencillo y eficiente para la generación de variables aleatorias. Así mismo, se implementa la estimación por el método de los momentos y, a través de un estudio de simulación, se ilustra el comportamiento de las estimaciones de los parámetros.

Scale mixtures of normal distributions are useful for statistical procedures involving symmetric and heavy-tailed data. Ferreira, Lachos, and Bolfarine (2016) defined a multivariate skewed version of these distributions that offers much-needed flexibility by combining both skewness and heavy tails. In this work, we develop a linear mixed model based on skew scale mixtures of normal distributions, with emphasis on the skew Student-t normal, skew–slash and skew–contaminated normal distributions. Using the hierarchical structure of the model, we develop maximum likelihood estimation of the model parameters via the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. In addition, the standard errors are obtained via the approximate information matrix and the local influence analysis is explored under some perturbation schemes. To examine the performance and the usefulness of the proposed method, we present simulation studies and analyze a real dataset. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]