Statistics-Lmoments

Perl extension for L-moments

 Copyright (c) 2002- Ari Jolma. All rights reserved.
 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

array.c and array.h are taken from the Karl Glazebrook's PGPLOT distribution.

The Fortran routines for L-moments are copyrighted by J. R. M. Hosking (http://www.research.ibm.com/people/h/hosking/home.html). I have downloaded the code and documentation from StatLib http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/

Following distributions are supported:

EXP Exponential distribution GAM Gamma distribution GEV Generalized extreme-value distribution GLO Generalized logistic distribution GNO Generalized Normal (lognormal) distribution GPA Generalized Pareto distribution GUM Gumbel distribution KAP Kappa distribution NOR Normal distribution PE3 Pearson type III distribution WAK Wakeby distribution

INSTALLATION

To install, unzip and untar the archive. In the directory created type

perl Makefile.pl
make
make test
make install

Documentation is in the module file and will be added onto perllocal.pod as usual.