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Multitude of Laplace distributions

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Motivated by the recent popularity, we provide a comprehensive review of the known Laplace distributions along with their properties and applications.

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    Tomasz J. Kozubowski

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    Saralees Nadarajah

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Kozubowski, T.J., Nadarajah, S. Multitude of Laplace distributions. Stat Papers 51, 127–148 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-008-0127-2

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