It reminds me of an ordered probit problem: you have one unobserved distribution, which is being carved up. Only now you also have information about where the cuts are made. This should be solvable. You might want to look at the log normal instead of the normal though, since no one can get, or has ever been, -2 (even with plastic surgery).
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of Nick Cox
Sent: donderdag 29 september 2005 11:09
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: st: RE: Generating skewed distributions on closed intervals
Well, I guess wildly the literature you are unaware of
holds better solutions, but that's an empty comment
as I don't know what it is. The idea that an age
distribution is a bunch of little truncated
Gaussians sitting next to each other on a line sounds
at best strange to me, but as I said I don't
understand what your problem is.
Nick
[email protected]
Reza C Daniels
>
> There is a literature on this problem that I am aware of. I'm just
> having trouble with the code in Stata to generate my required results.
> >
> > Whatever your problem is, it is difficult to believe
> > that there is not a literature on it, e.g. in demography,
> > actuarial science, population ecology.
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