On a Class of Skew Distribution Functions

1955/12/01 by Herbert A. Simon · 23 citations
Decision Sciences · Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Analysis of environmental and stochastic processes #Probability and Risk Models #Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications

paper · doi:10.2307/2333389

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