Research Article

A Method for Simulating Burr Type III and Type XII Distributions through -Moments and -Correlations

Table 7

-skew ( ) and -kurtosis ( ) results for the -moment procedure.

DistributionParameterEstimate95% Bootstrap C.I.St. errorRB%


1 0.3621, 0.36520.00078
0.2134, 0.21640.00078
2 0.4431, 0.44610.00076
0.2007, 0.20420.00087
3 0.1601, 0.16270.00066
0.1462, 0.14830.00054
4 0.00071
0.1643, 0.16630.00051


1 0.3863, 0.38680.00014
0.2325, 0.23310.00015
2 0.4630, 0.46360.00015
0.2251, 0.22580.00019
3 0.1694, 0.16980.00010
0.1501, 0.15040.00008
4 0.00011
0.1665, 0.16680.00007