The log F: A distribution for all seasons

Computational Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-58

  Brown, Barry W ^a   Spears, Floyd M ^b   Levy, Lawrence B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON CLEAR LAKE   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized Log F; Goodness of Fit; Parametric Modeling; Probability Distributions; Statistical Software

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036004885     PISSN: 09434062     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001800200098     Document Type: Article

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