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ArticleJournal of applied statistics2024

A general class of trimodal distributions: properties and inference.

Roberto Vila, Victor Serra, Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya, Felipe Quintino

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Article in Journal of applied statistics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Roberto VilaDepartamento de Estatística, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1073-0114
Victor SerraDepartamento de Estatística, Universidade de Brasília, Brasilia, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3061-2094
Mehmet Niyazi ÇankayaFaculty of Applied Sciences, Department of International Trading and Finance, Uşak University, Uşak, Turkey.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2933-857X
Felipe QuintinoDepartamento de Estatística, Universidade de Brasília, Ji-Paraná-RO, Brazil.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0286-0541

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The modality is an important topic for modelling. Using parametric models is an efficient way when real data set shows trimodality. In this paper, we propose a new class of trimodal probability distributions, that is, probability distributions that have up to three modes. Trimodality itself is achieved by applying a proper transformation to density function of certain continuous probability distributions. At first, we obtain preliminary results for an arbitrary density function

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PMID39035853
PMCPMC11259454

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