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Kumaraswamy

Probability density function
Cumulative distribution function
Parameters	$a>0\,$ (real) $b>0\,$ (real)
Support	$x \in [0,1]\,$
Probability density function (pdf)	$abx^{a-1}(1-x^a)^{b-1}\,$
Cumulative distribution function (cdf)	$[1-(1-x^a)^b]\,$
Mean	$\frac{b\Gamma(1+1/a)\Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(1+1/a+b)}\,$
Median	$\left(1-\left(\frac{1}{2}\right)^{1/b}\right)^{1/a}$
Mode	$\left(\frac{a-1}{ab-1}\right)^{1/a}$
Variance	(complicated-see text)
Skewness	(complicated-see text)
Excess kurtosis	(complicated-see text)
Entropy
Moment-generating function (mgf)
Characteristic function

In probability and statistics, the Kumaraswamy's double bounded distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0,1] differing in the values of their two non-negative shape parameters, a and b. It is as versatile as the Beta distribution, but much simpler to use especially in simulation studies due to the simple closed form of both its pdf and cdf. The distribution form was originally presented by Poondi Kumaraswamy for variables that are lower and upper bounded.

Characterization

Probability density function

The probability density function of the Kumaraswamy distribution is

$f(x; a,b) = a b x^{a-1}{ (1-x^a)}^{b-1} \,\!$

Cumulative distribution function

The cumulative distribution function is therefore

$F(x; a,b)=1-(1-x^a)^b\!\,\!$

Generalizing to arbitrary range

In its simplest form, the distribution has a range of [0,1]. In a more general form, we may replace the normalized variable x with the unshifted and unscaled variable z where:

$x = \frac{z-z_{\mathrm{min}}}{z_{\mathrm{max}}-z_{\mathrm{min}}} , \qquad z_{\mathrm{min}} \le z \le z_{\mathrm{max}}. \,\!$

The distribution is sometimes combined with a "pike probability" or a Dirac delta function, e.g.:

$g(x|a,b) = F_0\delta(x)+(1-F_0)a b x^{a-1}{ (1-x^a)}^{b-1} \,\!$

Properties

The raw moments of the Kumaraswamy distribution are given by:

$m_n = \frac{b\Gamma(1+n/a)\Gamma(b)}{\Gamma(1+b+n/a)} = bB(1+n/a,n/b)\,$

where B is the Beta function. The variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis can be calculated from these raw moments. For example, the variance is:

$\sigma^2=m_2-m_1^2$

Example

A good example of the use of the Kumaraswamy distribution is the storage volume of a reservoir of capacity z_max whose upper bound is z_max and lower bound is 0 (Fletcher, 1996).

References

Kumaraswamy, P. (1980). "A generalized probability density function for double-bounded random processes". Journal of Hydrology 46: 79–88.
Fletcher, S.G., and Ponnambalam, K. (1996). "Estimation of reservoir yield and storage distribution using moments analysis". Journal of Hydrology 182: 259–275.

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