The Laplace Distribution and Generalizations: A Revisit with Applications to Communications, Economics, Engineering, and Finance

by Samuel Kotz, Krzystof Podgorski, Tomasz Kozubowski

Book Overview

This monograph focuses on the importance of reviving the Laplace distribution and describes the inferential and modeling advantages which this distribution, together with its generalizations and modifications, offers. An increasing number of researchers in various fields find the Laplace distribution attractive and a theoretically sound alternative to normal and related distributions (i.e., Gauss and the method of least squares). Key features of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1461266467
• ISBN13: 9781461266464
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Birkhauser
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"