q exponential is a Burr distribution

被引:14
作者
Nadarajah, Saralees [1 ]
Kotz, Samuel
机构
[1] Univ Manchester, Sch Math, Manchester M13 9PL, Lancs, England
[2] George Washington Univ, Dept Engn Management & Syst Engn, Washington, DC 20052 USA
关键词
burr distribution; fracture roughness data; q exponential distribution;
D O I
10.1016/j.physleta.2006.07.035
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
It is pointed out that the q-exponential distribution introduced in the ground-breaking paper by Tsallis [C. Tsallis, J. Stat. Phys. 52 (1988) 479] is contained by a family of distributions known since the 1940s. Some elementary statistical properties of this family are discussed. Six data sets on fracture roughness are used to demonstrate that this family provides much better models for fracture roughness than the q exponential distribution. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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