Moments in Statistics: Approximations to Densities and Goodness-of-Fit

Abstract

In this article the author discusses ways in which moments are used (a) to approximate distributions, and (b) to test fit to a given distribution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 11, 1993
Accession Number
ADA266600

Entities

People

  • Michael A. Stephens

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computations
  • Curve Fitting
  • Data Science
  • Distribution Functions
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Mathematical Analysis
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • New York
  • Normal Distribution
  • Normality
  • Polynomials
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics