Fitting Quantiles: Doubling, HR, HQ, and HHH Distributions

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 180-195

  Morgenthaler, Stephan ^a   Tukey, John W ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Double H family; HHH family; HQ family; HR family; Pareto tails; Shapes

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044519544     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10618600.2000.10474873     Document Type: Article

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