Which is the Right Laplace?

Samuel Kotz
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Samuel Kotz: George Washington University, Dept. of Engineering Management

A chapter in Distributions With Given Marginals and Statistical Modelling, 2002, pp 125-141 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A comparison between the Laplace (doubly exponential) and Gauss-Laplace (normal) distributions is carried out —both in univariate and multivariate settings.

Keywords: Comparing distributions; symmetric and asymmetric Laplace distributions; characterization of distributions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-0061-0_14

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