Johnson's SU-distribution

Johnson's SU
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The Johnson's SU-distribution is a four-parameter family of probability distributions first investigated by N. L. Johnson in 1949.[1][2] Johnson proposed it as a transformation of the normal distribution:[3]

where .

Generation of random variables

Let U be a random variable that is uniformly distributed on the unit interval [0, 1]. Johnson's SU random variables can be generated from U as follows:

where Φ is the cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution.

References

  1. Johnson, N. L. (1949). "Systems of Frequency Curves Generated by Methods of Translation". Biometrika. 36 (1/2): 149–176. doi:10.2307/2332539. JSTOR 2332539.
  2. Johnson, N. L. (1949). "Bivariate Distributions Based on Simple Translation Systems". Biometrika. 36 (3/4): 297–304. doi:10.1093/biomet/36.3-4.297. JSTOR 2332669.
  3. Johnson (1949) "Systems of Frequency Curves...", p. 158

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