International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2005 (2005), Issue 19, Pages 3169-3174
doi:10.1155/IJMMS.2005.3169
A generalized logistic distribution
Saralees Nadarajah1
and Samuel Kotz2
1Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 68583, NE, USA
2Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington DC 20052, USA
Abstract
A generalized logistic distribution is proposed, based on the fact that the difference of two independent Gumbel-distributed random variables has the standard logistic distribution.