For over 200 years, practitioners have been developing parametric families of probability distributions for data analysis. More recently, an active development of nonparametric and semiparametric families has occurred. This book includes an extensive discussion of a wide variety of distribution families-nonparametric, semiparametric and parametric-some well known and some not. An all-encompassing view is taken for the purpose of identifying relationships, origins and structures of the vario ...