Tables And Characteristics of the Standardized Lognormal Distribution

Nick T. Thomopoulos,

Stuart Graduate School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology,

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Arvid C. Johnson,

Graduate School of Business & Information Systems, Dominican University,

7900 W. Division St., River Forest, IL 60305, Phone: 708-524-6465, Fax: 708-524-6939

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Abstract:

While lognormal distributions have demonstrated great utility in a number of applications related to decision sciences, practitioners find few – if any – tables of its cumulative distribution function available to support their work. 

This paper describes a “standardized” form of the lognormal distribution and a methodology by which tables of its cumulative distribution function can be generated.  

This paper, then, provides these reference tables and illustrates their use.