Two-sided generalized Topp and Leone (TS-GTL) distributions

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1115-1129

  Vicari, Donatella ^a   Van Dorp, Johan Rene ^b   Kotz, Samuel ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b The George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodal distribution; Maximum likelihood estimation; Order statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 50349088209     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664760802230583     Document Type: Article

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