Comparisons of the percentage points of distributions with the same first four moments, chosen from eight different systems of frequency curves

DOI10.1080/03610917908812115zbMath0444.62024OpenAlexW2074082163MaRDI QIDQ3888323

E. S. Pearson, Irving W. Burr

Publication date: 1979

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/resolver/1840.4/3447

zbMATH Keywords

kurtosisWeibullskewnesslognormalBurrPearsonnoncentral chi-squareprobability integralsnoncentral tfrequency curvesJohnsoncommon first four momentscomparisons of percentage points of distributionslog- chi-square

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Statistical tables (62Q05)

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