Nature

Normal or Log-normal: Appropriate Distributions

I WISH to point out that for the statistical analysis of certain types of data the assumption that the data are drawn from a normal population is usually wrong, and that the alternative assumption of ...
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Detection of Two-Component Mixtures of Lognormal Distributions in Grouped, Doubly Truncated Data: Analysis of Red Blood Cell Volume Distributions

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We have examined the statistical requirements for the detection of mixtures of two lognormal distributions in doubly truncated data when the ...
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Optimal Thresholds for a Mixture of Lognormal Distributions as the Continuous Part of the Mixed Distribution

Vol. 33, No. 12, HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL ASPECTS OF RAINFALL MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTABILITY (December 1994), pp. 1543-1550 (8 pages) The paper considers a mixture of two and three lognormal ...
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Creating Lognormal Probability Plots

When you request a lognormal probability plot, you must specify the shape parameter for the lognormal distribution (see Table 9.13 for the equation). The value of must be positive, and typical values ...