TY - JOUR AU - Chakraborty, Subrata PY - 2015 DA - 2015/08/05 TI - Generating discrete analogues of continuous probability distributions-A survey of methods and constructions JO - Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications SP - 6 VL - 2 IS - 1 AB - In this paper a comprehensive survey of the different methods of generating discrete probability distributions as analogues of continuous probability distributions is presented along with their applications in construction of new discrete distributions. The methods are classified based on different criterion of discretization. SN - 2195-5832 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40488-015-0028-6 DO - 10.1186/s40488-015-0028-6 ID - Chakraborty2015 ER -