Life Distributions : Structure of Nonparamentric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families (Springer Series in Statistics) (2007. 782 p. w. 138 ill.)

For over 200 years, practitioners have been developing parametric families of probability distributions for data analysis. A unified methodological approach for the introduction of parameters into families is developed, and the properties that the parameters imbue a distribution are clarified.