A Gaussian equation was used along with an “IF” function to zero out the center values. The plots for this bi-modal distribution reveals an intuitive understanding of the method (Fig. 3).

In cases where the utility function is increasing with upper and lower bounds then the utility function can be characterized by a distribution function, and we can take advantage of the various ...

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1991), pp. 77-89 (13 pages) By generalizing the inverse Gaussian distribution function, we obtain a new three-parameter family of distributions ...