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2004 Sep 15
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Slightly off-topic --- distribution name.
I've built R functions to ``effect'' a particular distribution, and
would like to find out if that distribution is already ``known'' by
an existing name. (I.e. suppose it were called the ``Melvin''
distribution --- I've built dmelvin, pmelvin, qmelvin, and rmelvin as
it were, but I need a real name to substitute for melvin.)
The distribution is really just a toy --- but it provides a nice (and
``non-obviouse'') example of a two parameter distribution where both
the moment and maximum likelihood equations for the parameter
estimators are readily solv...