Solving For the parameters of a beta a distribution under two quantile constraints
- 1 September 2000
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation
- Vol. 67 (2), 189-201
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00949650008812041
Abstract
It will be shown that a solution exists for the parameters of a beta distribution given any combination of a lower quantile and upper quantile constraint. A numerical procedure is developed to solve for the parameters of the beta distribution given these quantile constraints. Example solutions are provided.Keywords
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