Note to Matlab users.


A number of people write to me asking for clarification about the use 
of Matlab tools for the skew-normal distribution and related ones.

The basic thing to say is that I do not use Matlab or Octave.

An early version of my R code has been ported to Matlab by Nicola
Sartori in 1999, when the R package did not yet include tools for the 
skew-t distribution. After that, Nicola has not updated his porting 
when subsequent versions of the R code have appeared. In 2008 a set of
routines to deal with the skew-t distribution has been written and
made publicly available by Enrique Batiz. 

Unfortunately, I am unable to provide support for the existing Matlab
code. 

All I can do is to interact with people that intend to port the
forthcoming version 1.0-xy of the R version to Octave; this R update
is due to appear soon. The sort of interaction which I can provide is
clarification on the working of the R version and on the theoretical
aspects, not writing Octave code for which I do not have the
competence. If somebody is volounteering to undertake this job and
likes the idea of this interaction, please contact me.


Adelchi Azzalini
December 2013