The extended generalized lambda distribution system for fitting distributions to data: history, completion of theory, tables, applications, the “final word” on moment fits

DOI10.1080/03610919608813333zbMath0909.62007OpenAlexW1992394918MaRDI QIDQ4337283

Z. A. Karian, Patrick McDonald, Edward J. Dudewicz

Publication date: 14 March 1999

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610919608813333

zbMATH Keywords

data fittingmethod of momentsgeneralized beta distributiongeneralized lambda distributionsystem of probability distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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