Statistics for Maintenance Modelling: Continuous Lifetime Distributions 2

# Example of Fitting the Loglogistic Distribution to the Emergence of Teeth¤

The chart shows the cumlative distribution function for the loglogistic distribution being used to model the emergence times of teeth in Flemish boys. The three curves show the fitted loglogistic distribution for different teeth.

The data comes from LEROY, R., BOGAERTS, L., LESAFFRE, R. and DECCLERCK, D. (2003) The emergence of permanent teeth in Flemish children. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 31, 30-39.