Statistical size distributions in economics and actuarial sciences

Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz0471150649, 9780471150640, 9780471457169

Providing insight into a field of study that is now gaining global importance, this comprehensive treatment of statistical size distributions: * Describes in-full more than 25 models * Covers Lorenz curves, multimodal, and multivariate distributions * Pays specific attention to Italian, and to some degree Japanese sources * Emphasizes interrelations among various families * Accounts for more than 200 personal papers, theses, and technical reports by the authors, representing over 40 combined years of study and research * Opens a formerly European field to the global market

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Table of contents :
Statistical Size Distributions in Economics & Actuarial Sciences……Page 1
The Series……Page 3
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 10
Acknowledgments……Page 12
Ch1 Introduction……Page 14
Ch2 General Principles……Page 32
Ch3 Pareto Distributions……Page 72
Ch4 Lognormal Distributions……Page 120
Ch5 Gamma-Type Size Distributions……Page 160
Ch6 Beta-Type Size Distributions……Page 196
Ch7 Miscellaneous Size Distributions……Page 248
AppA Biographies……Page 264
AppB Data on Size Distributions……Page 290
AppC Size Distributions……Page 296
List of Symbols……Page 300
References……Page 302
Author Index……Page 332
Subject Index……Page 340
Titles in the Series……Page 346