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This implies a departure from the well-known assumption of normality defined for innovations in time series processes. In this paper, the autoregressive (AR) process of order p (i.e., the AR(p) process) is of particular interest using the skew generalized normal (SGN) distribution for the innovations, referred to hereafter as the ARSGN(p) process, to accommodate asymmetric behavior. This behavior presents itself by investigating some properties of the SGN distribution, which is a fundamental element for AR modeling of real data that exhibits non-normal behavior. Simulation studies illustrate the asymmetry and statistical properties of the conditional maximum likelihood (ML) parameters for the ARSGN(p) model. It is concluded that the ARSGN(p) model accounts well for time series processes exhibiting asymmetry, kurtosis, and heavy tails. Real time series datasets are analyzed, and the results of the ARSGN(p) model are compared to previously proposed models. 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