Beyond Beta: Other Continuous Families of Distributions with Bounded Support and Applications (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789812561152)

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.

Author: Samuel Kotz,Johan Rene Van Dorp
ISBN-10: 9812561153
ISBN-13: 9789812561152
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 12/09/2004
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.14w x 0.85d