L-Moment

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A L-Moment is a linear combination of order statistics analogous to a moment-generating function.



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2016

(...) L-moments are statistical quantities that are derived from probability weighted moments (PWM) which were defined earlier (1979). PWM are used to efficiently estimate the parameters of distributions expressable in inverse form such as the Gumbel, the Tukey, and the Wakeby distributions.