Bimodal Regression Model

Abstract

Regression analysis is a technique widely used in different areas of human knowledge, with distinct distributions for the error term. It is the case, however, that regression models with the error term following a bimodal distribution are not common in the literature, perhaps due to the lack of simple to deal with bimodal error distributions. In this paper, we propose a simple to deal with bimodal regression model with a symmetric-asymmetric distribution for the error term for which for some values of the shape parameter it can be bimodal. This new distribution contains the normal and skew-normal as special cases. A real data application reveals that the new model can be extremely useful in such situations.

Keywords

• Bimodal Distribution
• Generalized Gaussian Distribution
• Linear Regression
• Power Regression Model