R: Simulated sample from a skew-normal distribution

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## Simulated sample from a skew-normal distribution

### Description

A sample simulated from the SN(0,1,5) distribution with sample coefficient of skewness inside the admissible range (-0.9952719, 0.9952719) for the skew-normal family but maximum likelihood estimate on the frontier of the parameter space.

### Usage

    data(frontier)

### Format

A numeric vector of length 50.

### Source

Generated by a run of `rsn(50, 0, 1, 5)`.

### Examples

    data(frontier, package="sn")
    fit <- selm(frontier ~ 1)
    plot(fit, which=2)
    #
    fit.p <- selm(frontier ~ 1, method="MPLE")
    plot(fit.p, which=2)

[Package sn version 1.5-3 Index]