Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families Of Distributions With Bounded Support And Applications

Samuel Kotz author Johan Rene Van Dorp author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

Published:9th Dec '04

Currently unavailable, our supplier has not provided us a restock date

Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families Of Distributions With Bounded Support And Applications cover

Statistical distributions are fundamental to Statistical Science and are a prime indispensable tool for its applications. This monograph is the first to examine an important but somewhat neglected field — univariate continuous distribution on a bounded domain, excluding the beta distribution. It provides an elementary but thorough discussion of “novel” contributions developed in recent years, such as the two-sided power, generalized trapezoidal and generalized Topp and Leone distributions, among others. It discusses a general framework for constructing two-sided distributions and some of its properties. It contains a comprehensive chapter on the triangular distribution as well as a chapter on earlier extensions not emphasized in existing literature. Special attention is given to estimation, in particular, non-standard maximum likelihood procedures. The applications are drawn mainly from the econometric and engineering domains.

ISBN: 9789812561152

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

308 pages