distribution curve
 

Hi,
I have the strandard deviation, mean and skew of a curve
and I wish to draw the curve. Is there a function to do
this or do I have to write one. Where can I find a
function if someone else has already done so.

Thanks
MarkS

distribution curve
 

You do not have enough information to uniquely define a distribution.

Jerry

mark scholes wrote:

Hi,
I have the strandard deviation, mean and skew of a curve
and I wish to draw the curve. Is there a function to do
this or do I have to write one. Where can I find a
function if someone else has already done so.

Thanks
MarkS

distribution curve
 

What more information do I need

MarkS
-----Original Message-----
You do not have enough information to uniquely define a
distribution.

Jerry

mark scholes wrote:

Hi,
I have the strandard deviation, mean and skew of a
curve
and I wish to draw the curve. Is there a function to do
this or do I have to write one. Where can I find a
function if someone else has already done so.

Thanks
MarkS

.

distribution curve
 

"mark scholes" wrote...
What more information do I need

You either need to assume a functional form or you need a bunch of data
points to fit to likely functional forms, then select the 'best' one ('best'
is a loaded term in this instance).

The problem is that having mean, standard deviation and skewness is
sufficient to indentify a particular member of a 3-parameter family of
distributions, e.g., the Burr distribution, or an arbitrarily shifted member
of a 2-parameter family of distributions, but it's not sufficient to select
which distribution family to use.

distribution curve
 

If you are willing to assume that higher order cumulants are zero (or
nearly so), then you could use the Edgeworth expansion (equations
26.2.47 and 26.2.48 from Abramowitz and Stegun's Handbook of
Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards and later Dover
paperbacks, with various printing years from 1964 into the 1970's)

Jerry

mark scholes wrote:

What more information do I need

MarkS

-----Original Message-----
You do not have enough information to uniquely define a

distribution.

Jerry

mark scholes wrote:


Hi,
I have the strandard deviation, mean and skew of a

curve

and I wish to draw the curve. Is there a function to do
this or do I have to write one. Where can I find a
function if someone else has already done so.

Thanks
MarkS

.

distribution curve
 

Do you have access to the original data? If so, you can toss the
summary stats, using the original data's empirical cumulative as the
best (MLE) proximal to the "true" distribution, sans additional
assumptions.

Good luck. Perhaps the person who posed this to the OP has a string
prior as to which family this belongs.

HTH
Dave Braden

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"mark scholes" wrote:

Hi,
I have the strandard deviation, mean and skew of a curve
and I wish to draw the curve. Is there a function to do
this or do I have to write one. Where can I find a
function if someone else has already done so.

Thanks
MarkS

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