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Biometrika 1985 72(1):219-222; doi:10.1093/biomet/72.1.219
© 1985 by Biometrika Trust
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Pearson diagrams for truncated normal and truncated Weibull distributions

NARIAKI SUGIURA and AKIHIDE GOMI

Department of Mathematics, University of Tsukvba Ibaraki 305, Japan

The skewness and kurtosis of doubly truncated normal distributions and right truncated Weibull distributions are studied. The former lie in the type I region and the latter in type I, type III or type VI regions in the Pearson system of distributions.

Key Words: Kurtosis • Pearson curve • Skewness


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