Fitting the Generalized Lambda Distribution with Location and Scale-Free Shape Functionals

DOI10.1080/01966324.2007.10737708MaRDI QIDQ3602306zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Robert A. R. King, H. L. MacGillivray

Publication date 12 February 2009

Published in American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/01966324.2007.10737708

zbMATH Keywords

ratio of spread functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Point estimation (62F10)

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