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University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The gamma distribution as an alternative to the lognormal distribution in environmental applications
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn environmental applications dealing with data from contaminated sites the positively skewed lognormal distribution has been the most commonly used model. The upper confidence limit (UCL) of the arithmetic mean of a lognormal population is computed by using the H-statistics. Recent concerns have arisen to the effectiveness of the H-Statistic based UCL for the mean of the lognormal distribution in instances of moderately to highly skewed data sets. In this paper the positively skewed Gamma distribution is considered as an alternative to the lognormal distribution and is shown to produce more reasonable UCL's for the mean.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science (MS)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Mathematical Sciences
- Grantor dc:publisher
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Year
- 2000
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Iaci, Ross Joseph
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Ashok K. Singh
Rights
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- IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Language dc:language
- English
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/1206
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-2205