A new continuous distribution and two new families of distributions based on the exponential

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 305-328

  Jasso, Guillermina ^a   Kotz, Samuel ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous univariate distributions; Erlang distribution; Folded distributions; Gamma distribution; General Erlang distribution; General gamma distribution; Gini coefficient; Social inequality; Social status; Wage distribution; Wage function; Wage inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547213735     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2007.00358.x     Document Type: Article

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