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A NEW FAMILY OF NON‐NEGATIVE DISTRIBUTIONS
Author(s) -
Hankin Robin K. S.,
Lee Alan
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 1369-1473
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.00426.x
Subject(s) - quantile , mathematics , quantile function , function (biology) , distribution (mathematics) , statistics , econometrics , probability density function , cumulative distribution function , mathematical analysis , evolutionary biology , biology
Summary We introduce a new, flexible family of distributions for non‐negative data, defined by means of a quantile function. We describe some properties of this family, and discuss several methods for estimating the parameters. The distribution is applied to an example from environmental engineering.