A discretized approach to flexibly fit generalized lambda distributions to data

Journal of Modern Applied Statistical Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 408-424

  Su, Steve ^a,b  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b Epi stat Division   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fitting distributions to data; Generalized lambda distributions; Quantile distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544448007     PISSN: 15389472     EISSN: 15389472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22237/jmasm/1130803560     Document Type: Article

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