A three-parameter asymmetric laplace distribution and its extension

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 34, Issue 9-10, 2005, Pages 1867-1879

  Yu, Keming ^a   Zhang, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Asymmetric Laplace distribution; Parameter estimation; Quantile

Indexed keywords

PARAMETER ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ASYMMETRIC LAPLACE DISTRIBUTION; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTION; QUANTILE;

LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

EID: 25644438411     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920500199018     Document Type: Article

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