Applications of the normal Laplace and generalized normal Laplace distributions.

Two parametric models for income and financial return distributions are presented. There are the four-parameter normal Laplace (NL) and the five-parameter generalized normal Laplace (GNL) distributions. Their properties are discussed; furthermore, estimation of the parameters by the method of mom...

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Main Author: Wu, Fan
Other Authors: Reed, William J.
Language:English
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Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/1215