The Burr family of distributions has been used extensively for over 20 years as a species sensitivity distribution (SSD) in ecotoxicology. Indeed, its popularity (at least in Australia and New Zealand) has been guaranteed by the fact that it is a default distribution in the Burrlioz software tool which underpins the methodology for guideline development (GV) in those countries. The main advantages of the Burr distributions are (i) they can accommodate a wide variety of …
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