NGD-A FORTRAN IV Program for Fitting the Normal Generated Distribution

Authors

H. Charles Romesburg, Utah State UniversityFollow
Kim Marshall, Utah State University
Jerome V. DeGraff, U.S. Forest Service

Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title

Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation

Publisher

Psychonomic Society

Publication Date

1980

Volume

12

Issue

3

First Page

385

Last Page

386

Abstract

The distribution of a random variable p, where p is constrained on the domain 0 < p < 1, is often of interest. For example, p could be a subjectively estimated probability of a subject’s preference for an item, or it could be the fraction of questions that a subject answers correctly on a test. In examples like these, the beta distribution is often used for the probability density function (PDF) of p, that is, the distribution of the random variable p over a set of subjects.

Comments

Originally published by the Psychonomic Society. Publisher's PDF available through remote link.

Recommended Citation

H. C. Romesburg, K. Marshall, and J. V. DeGraff. 1980. NGD-A FORTRAN IV Program for Fitting the Normal Generated Distribution. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 12(3):385-386.