Abstract

Use of the density of the ordinate of a given density has previously been called vertical density representation (vdr). This paper uses vdr to study the heaviness of tails of univariate densities. Twelve common and widely used distributions, and a newly proposed one due to Johnson, are ordered in terms of heaviness of tails by this approach.

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