Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences

"Researchers and teachers in econometrics and actuarial statistics will find this book an interesting source of information." ( Journal of the American Statistical Association , December 2004)
"The overall quality of the book is excellent. The material is well-written and well laid out...an indispensable, authoritative source of information..." ( Zentralblatt MATH Database )

"...an indispensable, authoritative source of information on a remarkably diverse variety of parametric models for applied statisticians and researchers..." ( Zentralblatt Math , Vol.1044, No.19, 2004)

"As a reference book, it is exceptionally well done, as are all of the projects undertaken by Prof. Kotz...The statistics profession has been greatly enriched by this particular effort." ( Technometrics , November 2004)

"...the authors have gone a long way towards achieving their ideal that a useful book on this subject matter should be interesting." (Short Book Reviews , August 2004)

"...traces the numerous statistical models of income distribution for Pareto's model in the late 19th century to the latest ones." ( Quarterly of Applied Mathematics , Vol. LXII, No. 1, March 2004)