`ISRN Applied MathematicsVolume 2012 (2012), Article ID 475781, 16 pageshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5402/2012/475781`
Research Article

## An L-Moment-Based Analog for the Schmeiser-Deutsch Class of Distributions

1Section on Statistics and Measurement, Department of EPSE, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 222-J Wham Building, Carbondale, IL 62901-4618, USA
2University of Texas at Arlington, 320B Science Hall, Arlington, TX 76019, USA

Received 28 June 2012; Accepted 7 August 2012

Academic Editors: I. Doltsinis and E. Yee

Copyright © 2012 Todd C. Headrick and Mohan D. Pant. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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