On mergers of distributions and distributions with exponential tails

A simple data-analytic method is suggested for modelling situations in which two processes are effective on different but overlapping domains. This is used to describe a two-tendency-model with exponential tails. The result is compared with the well-known hyperbolic distribution on the basis of a 'classical' data set fom particle size analysis.

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