Research Article

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

Table 6

Skew ( ) and kurtosis ( ) results for the conventional moment procedure.

DistributionParameterEstimate95% Bootstrap C.I.St. errorRB%


1 1.7397, 1.75970.00510
3.2911, 3.38710.02430
2 2.1428, 2.15960.00429
4.1715, 4.26140.02306
3 0.7859, 0.79940.00346
0.4786, 0.52200.01111   
4 −0.0585, −0.04300.00391
0.3243, 0.35520.00791


1 3.5888, 3.62750.00972
25.8657, 26.73660.22370
2 2.7548, 2.76810.00335
10.0615, 10.31070.06265
3 1.1219, 1.12660.00122
2.2451, 2.28610.01048
4 −0.0064, −0.00250.00101
1.1487, 1.16830.00498