Fitting single and mixture of generalized lambda distributions to data via discretized and maximum likelihood methods: GLDEX in R

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1-17

  Su, Steve ^a,b  

^a GEORGE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL HEALTH   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Generalized lambda distributions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Mixtures; R; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 36048956700     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v021.i09     Document Type: Article

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