This paper compares a number of approximations used to estimate means and variances of continuous random variables and/or to serve as substitutes for the probability distributions of such variables, ...

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This paper examines further the problem of approximating the distribution of a continuous random variable based on three key percentiles, typically the median (50th percentile) and the 5% points (5th ...