eng Anglès A microbiology application of the skew-Laplace distribution Julià, Olga Vives-Rego, Josep info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2008 Skew-Laplace distribution Goodness of fit Bacteria size SORT : statistics and operations research transactions http://ddd.uab.cat/record/97783 16962281v32n2p141 oai:ddd.uab.cat:97783 Tots els drets reservats http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/ Flow cytometry scatter are ofen used in microbiology, and their measures are related to bacteria size and granularity. We present an application of the skew-Laplace distribution to flow cytometry data. The goodness of fit is evaluated both graphically and numerically. We also study skewness and kurtosis values to assess usefulness of the skew-Laplace distribution.