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Australasian Biometrics and New Zealand Statistical Association Joint Conference 2001
December 10-13, 2001
Park Royal Hotel
Christchurch, New Zealand

Organizers
David Baird, Dave Saville, Harold Henderson, Peter Johnstone, Marco Reale, Irene Hudson, Julian Visch, Roger Littlejohn

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Characterising the shape of the generalised lambda distribution.
by
Robert King
University of Newcastle

The generalised lambda distribution takes on a wide variety of shapes, making it useful in simulation and in the assessment of robust statistical methods. This paper presents the distribution and an improved scheme for categorising the shapes it can take on.

http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/publ/

Date received: September 1, 2001

Copyright © 2001 by the author(s). The author(s) of this document and the organizers of the conference have granted their consent to include this abstract in Atlas Conferences Inc. Document # cahg-82.