Using genetic algorithms as a parameter estimation tool for the generalized lambda distribution (gld) family: “methods of moments”

The generalized lambda distribution, λ,λ,λ,λ(GLD ) 1 432 is a four-parameter family that has been used for fitting distributions to a wide variety of data sets. Minimization through traditional calculus-based methods has been implemented with relative success, but due to computational and theoretica...