October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
17h 24m
English
As one of the more commonly used distributions, the classic beta distribution was described in Section 12.3. Here we cover special cases and enhancements.
Setting, in Equation (12.13), both δ1 and δ2 to 0.5 gives the special case known as the arcsine distribution

It is the CDF that gives the distribution its name
Inverting give the QF

Statistical parameters are
There is also the second kind of the arc‐sine distribution; its PDF is

Figure 25.1 shows both kinds. Without a shape factor they cannot be fitted to data but, in any case, it is difficult to see what application either of the anti‐modal distributions ...