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Ordinarily, parameters of a distribution are thought of as being real or possibly vector-valued. In this chapter, families of distributions are discussed, which are distinguished by having a parameter that is itself a distribution function. These families also have a real-valued parameter and consequently are said to be semiparametric.
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Marshall, A.W., Olkin, I. (2007). Semiparametric Families. In: Life Distributions. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-68477-2_7
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