Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xviii
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Univariate Distributions
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Pages 3-13
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Pages 15-131
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Pages 133-178
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Pages 179-225
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Multivariate Distributions
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Front Matter
Pages 227-227
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Pages 229-230
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Pages 231-238
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Pages 239-272
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Applications
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Front Matter
Pages 273-273
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Pages 275-275
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Pages 277-287
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Pages 289-302
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Pages 303-308
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Pages 309-313
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Back Matter
Pages 315-349
About this book
The aim of this monograph is quite modest: It attempts to be a systematic exposition of all that appeared in the literature and was known to us by the end of the 20th century about the Laplace distribution and its numerous generalizations and extensions. We have tried to cover both theoretical developments and applications. There were two main reasons for writing this book. The first was our conviction that the areas and situations where the Laplace distribution naturally occurs is so extensive that tracking the original sources is unfeasible. The second was our observation of the growing demand for statistical distributions having properties tangent to those exhibited by the Laplace laws. These two "necessary" conditions justified our efforts that led to this book. Many details are arranged primarily for reference, such as inclusion of the most commonly used terminology and notation. In several cases, we have proposed unification to overcome the ambiguity of notions so often present in this area. Personal taste may have done some injustice to the subject matter by omitting or emphasizing certain topics due to space limitations. We trust that this feature does not constitute a serious drawback-in our literature search we tried to leave no stone unturned (we collected over 400 references).
Keywords
- Distribution
- STATISTICA
- Stochastic Processes
- actuarial
- applied probability
- communication
- communications
- finance fields
- finance/economics
- modeling
- operations research
- statistics
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book will be useful for those who are interested in tractable models which allow one to go beyond the normal distribution.” (ISI SHORT BOOK REVIEWS)
“ A useful source of information for research in applied and theoretical statistics. No doubt, this volume will become a necessary part of any mathematical and statistical library as well as of a number of technical libraries.”(MATHEMATICAL REVIEWS)
“This book is devoted to presenting properties, generalizations and applications of the Laplace distribution … This distribution is a natural and sometimes superior alternative to the normal distribution … The rich set of exercises is an integral part of the discussion.”(ZENTRALBLATT MATH)
Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, George Washington University, Washington, USA
Samuel Kotz
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Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
Tomaz J. Kozubowski
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Department of Mathematical Sciences, Indiana University—Purdue University, Indianapolis, USA
Krzysztof Podgórski