Fitting a distribution by the first two moments (partial and complete)

DOI10.1016/0167-9473(94)00016-CzbMath0875.62075OpenAlexW2027388144MaRDI QIDQ673459

Haim Shore

Publication date: 28 February 1997

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-9473(94)00016-c

zbMATH Keywords

ApproximationsMomentsDistribution fittingTransformations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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