Another Versatile Family of Probability Distributions.

Abstract

A new four parameter family of probability distributions is described. Special cases include Bernoulli trials, uniform, power series, exponential, triangular and Laplace (double exponential) distributions. Statistical properties, parameter determination, and random variate generation are developed. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1978
Accession Number
ADA072406

Entities

People

  • Bruce W. Schmeiser
  • Ram Lal

Organizations

  • Southern Methodist University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computations
  • Computer Simulations
  • Computers
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Digital Computers
  • Distribution Functions
  • Equations
  • Maximum Likelihood Estimation
  • Military Research
  • Order Statistics
  • Power Series
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Simulations
  • Statistics

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

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  • Operations Research
  • Regression Analysis.