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A Novel Generalized Normal Distribution for Human Longevity and other Negatively Skewed Data

Negatively skewed data arise occasionally in statistical practice; perhaps the most familiar example is the distribution of human longevity. Although other generalizations of the normal distribution exist, we demonstrate a new alternative that apparently fits human longevity data better. We propose...

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Autores principales: Robertson, Henry T., Allison, David B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356396/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22623974
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0037025