Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 46, No. 3 (1997), pp. 387-398 (12 pages) The beta distribution is seen as a suitable model in risk analysis because it ...

This paper examines further the problem of approximating the distribution of a continuous random variable based on three key percentiles, typically the median (50th percentile) and the 5% points (5th ...