A review of Student’s t distribution and its generalizations

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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