Computing and graphing probability values of pearson distributions: a SAS/IML macro.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Any empirical data can be approximated to one of Pearson distributions using the first four moments of the data (Elderton WP, Johnson NL. Systems of Frequency Curves. 1969; Pearson K. Philos Trans R Soc Lond Ser A. 186:343-414 1895; Solomon H, Stephens MA. J Am Stat Assoc. 73(361):153-60 1978). Thus, Pearson distributions made statistical analysis possible for data with unknown distributions. There are both extant, old-fashioned in-print tables (Pearson ES, Hartley HO. Biometrika Tables for Statisticians, vol. II. 1972) and contemporary computer programs (Amos DE, Daniel SL. Tables of percentage points of standardized pearson distributions. 1971; Bouver H, Bargmann RE. Tables of the standardized percentage points of the pearson system of curves in terms of β

SUBMITTER: Yang Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6923921 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature