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Burr Type XII

Probability density function
Cumulative distribution function
Parameters	${\displaystyle c>0\!}$ ${\displaystyle k>0\!}$
Support	${\displaystyle x>0\!}$
PDF	${\displaystyle ck{\frac {x^{c-1}}{(1+x^{c})^{k+1}}}\!}$
CDF	${\displaystyle 1-\left(1+x^{c}\right)^{-k}}$
Quantile	${\displaystyle \lambda \left({\frac {1}{(1-U)^{\frac {1}{k}}}}-1\right)^{\frac {1}{c}}}$
Mean	${\displaystyle \mu _{1}=k\operatorname {\mathrm {B} } (k-1/c,\,1+1/c)}$ where Β() is the beta function
Median	${\displaystyle \left(2^{\frac {1}{k}}-1\right)^{\frac {1}{c}}}$
Mode	${\displaystyle \left({\frac {c-1}{kc+1}}\right)^{\frac {1}{c}}}$
Variance	${\displaystyle -\mu _{1}^{2}+\mu _{2}}$
Skewness	${\displaystyle {\frac {2\mu _{1}^{3}-3\mu _{1}\mu _{2}+\mu _{3}}{\left(-\mu _{1}^{2}+\mu _{2}\right)^{3/2}}}}$
Excess kurtosis	${\displaystyle {\frac {-3\mu _{1}^{4}+6\mu _{1}^{2}\mu _{2}-4\mu _{1}\mu _{3}+\mu _{4}}{\left(-\mu _{1}^{2}+\mu _{2}\right)^{2}}}-3}$ where moments (see) ${\displaystyle \mu _{r}=k\operatorname {\mathrm {B} } \left({\frac {ck-r}{c}},\,{\frac {c+r}{c}}\right)}$
CF	${\displaystyle ={\frac {c(-it)^{kc}}{\Gamma (k)}}H_{1,2}^{2,1}\!\left,t\neq 0}$ ${\displaystyle =1,t=0}$ where ${\displaystyle \Gamma }$ is the Gamma function and ${\displaystyle H}$ is the Fox H-function.

In probability theory, statistics and econometrics, the Burr Type XII distribution or simply the Burr distribution is a continuous probability distribution for a non-negative random variable. It is also known as the Singh–Maddala distribution and is one of a number of different distributions sometimes called the "generalized log-logistic distribution".

Definitions

Probability density function

The Burr (Type XII) distribution has probability density function:

${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}f(x;c,k)&=ck{\frac {x^{c-1}}{(1+x^{c})^{k+1}}}\\f(x;c,k,\lambda )&={\frac {ck}{\lambda }}\left({\frac {x}{\lambda }}\right)^{c-1}\left^{-k-1}\end{aligned}}}$

The ${\displaystyle \lambda }$ parameter scales the underlying variate and is a positive real.

Cumulative distribution function

The cumulative distribution function is:

${\displaystyle F(x;c,k)=1-\left(1+x^{c}\right)^{-k}}$

${\displaystyle F(x;c,k,\lambda )=1-\left^{-k}}$

Applications

It is most commonly used to model household income, see for example: Household income in the U.S. and compare to magenta graph at right.

Random variate generation

Given a random variable ${\displaystyle U}$ drawn from the uniform distribution in the interval ${\displaystyle \left(0,1\right)}$, the random variable

${\displaystyle X=\lambda \left({\frac {1}{\sqrt{1-U}}}-1\right)^{1/c}}$

has a Burr Type XII distribution with parameters ${\displaystyle c}$, ${\displaystyle k}$ and ${\displaystyle \lambda }$. This follows from the inverse cumulative distribution function given above.

Related distributions

• When c = 1, the Burr distribution becomes the Lomax distribution.

• When k = 1, the Burr distribution is a log-logistic distribution sometimes referred to as the Fisk distribution, a special case of the Champernowne distribution.

• The Burr Type XII distribution is a member of a system of continuous distributions introduced by Irving W. Burr (1942), which comprises 12 distributions.

• The Dagum distribution, also known as the inverse Burr distribution, is the distribution of 1 / X, where X has the Burr distribution

References

1. Nadarajah, S.; Pogány, T. K.; Saxena, R. K. (2012). "On the characteristic function for Burr distributions". Statistics. 46 (3): 419–428. doi:10.1080/02331888.2010.513442. S2CID 120848446.
2. Burr, I. W. (1942). "Cumulative frequency functions". Annals of Mathematical Statistics. 13 (2): 215–232. doi:10.1214/aoms/1177731607. JSTOR 2235756.
3. Singh, S.; Maddala, G. (1976). "A Function for the Size Distribution of Incomes". Econometrica. 44 (5): 963–970. doi:10.2307/1911538. JSTOR 1911538.
4. Maddala, G. S. (1996) . Limited-Dependent and Qualitative Variables in Econometrics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-33825-5.
5. Tadikamalla, Pandu R. (1980), "A Look at the Burr and Related Distributions", International Statistical Review, 48 (3): 337–344, doi:10.2307/1402945, JSTOR 1402945
6. C. Kleiber and S. Kotz (2003). Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences. New York: Wiley. See Sections 7.3 "Champernowne Distribution" and 6.4.1 "Fisk Distribution."
7. Champernowne, D. G. (1952). "The graduation of income distributions". Econometrica. 20 (4): 591–614. doi:10.2307/1907644. JSTOR 1907644.
8. See Kleiber and Kotz (2003), Table 2.4, p. 51, "The Burr Distributions."

Further reading

• Rodriguez, R. N. (1977). "A guide to Burr Type XII distributions". Biometrika. 64 (1): 129–134. doi:10.1093/biomet/64.1.129.

External links

• John (2023-02-16). "The other Burr distributions". www.johndcook.com.

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