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New study reveals key properties of skewed distributions for better data modeling.

Symmetry
Some Results on the Truncated Multivariate Skew-Normal Distribution
Raúl Alejandro Morán‐Vásquez, Duván Humberto Cataño Salazar, Daya K. Nagar

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The article explores a type of statistical distribution called the truncated multivariate skew-normal distribution. This distribution is helpful for understanding data that doesn't follow a normal pattern. The researchers looked at different properties of this distribution by using mathematical techniques like affine transformations and conditioning. They found that the joint probability density function of this distribution is log-concave, which is an important result in statistics.