A GENERALIZED LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION

Authors

Saralees Nadarajah, University of ManchesterFollow
Samuel Kotz, The George Washington UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

2005

Citation

International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 2005:19 (2005) 3169–3174

Comments

Copyright © 2005 Hindawi Publishing Corporation

DOI: 10.1155/IJMMS.2005.3169

Abstract

A generalized logistic distribution is proposed, based on the fact that the difference of two independent Gumbel-distributed randomvariables has the standard logistic distribution.