Modelling Shot Lengths of Hollywood Motion Pictures with the Dagum Distribution

This paper demonstrates the three-parameter Dagum distribution provides a good fit for shot lengths in Hollywood films due to its ability to model a wide range of skewness and kurtosis values and a variety of tail behaviours by virtue of its two shape parameters. The fit of this distribution is bett...

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Main Author: Nick Redfern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2020-06-01
Series:Statistica
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Online Access:https://rivista-statistica.unibo.it/article/view/9910