We introduce the triangular approximation to the normal distribution in order to extract closed- and semi-closed-form solutions that are useful in risk measurement calculations. In risk measurement ...

In the coming weeks you’ll see a new forecasting methodology rolled into the economic previews that routinely appear on The Capital Spectator (see here, for instance). As a brief introduction, let’s ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 48, No. 2 (1999), pp. 179-187 (9 pages) Triangular distributions have been studied since (at least) the 18th century but ...

All measurements are subject to error. When a reportable value is derived from a measurement or series of measurements, this value is only an estimate of the “true ...