Re: [R] Slightly off-topic --- distribution name.

2004-09-15 Thread A.J. Rossini
Have you checked Johnson and Kotz? That's the obvious place to start looking for distributions beyond the usual. Rolf Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've built R functions to ``effect'' a particular distribution, and would like to find out if that distribution is already ``known'' by an

Re: [R] Slightly off-topic --- distribution name.

2004-09-15 Thread David Scott
I believe this is the skew-Laplace distribution, although the skew-Laplace does allow for the location of the mode of the distribution to vary. Have a look at the function dskewlap in HyperbolicDist. The help on that function gives a reference to a paper by Feiller et al which describes the