Characterizing the generalized lambda distribution by L-moments

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1971-1983

  Karvanen, Juha ^a   Nuutinen, Arto ^b  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Kurtosis; L moment ratio diagram; Method of L moments; Method of moments; Skewness

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

GENERALIZED LAMBDA DISTRIBUTIONS; KURTOSIS; L-MOMENT RATIO DIAGRAMS; METHOD OF L-MOMENTS; SKEWNESS;

METHOD OF MOMENTS;

EID: 35748939729     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2007.06.021     Document Type: Article

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