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Recruitment data for 18 marine fish stocks are smoothed using 10 parametric families of probability distributions. Comparative fit of the 10 families is assessed by means of the maximized log-likelihood. Results indicate that the gamma distribution provides an overall good fit in the right-hand tail of the data, but that some adjustment to the gamma distribution is called for in the left-hand tail. Weight functions and weighted distributions are suggested as one means of achieving the needed adjustment.
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Taillie, C., Patil, G.P. and Hennemuth, R.C. (1988) Statistical analysis of recruitment data for eighteen marine fish stocks. Technical Report 88-0301, Center for Statistical Ecology and Environmental Statistics, Department of Statistics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
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Taillie, C., Patil, G.P. & Hennemuth, R.C. Modelling and analysis of recruitment distributions. Environ Ecol Stat 2, 315–329 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00569361
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