“…Parametric techniques are useful when there is some evidence or knowledge about the underlying distribution of the data. For example, if the median ij m is stable and centered in the interquartile range ij iqr , it is possible that data might be modeled through a Gaussian distribution [37], although further analyses would be required, such as χ 2 goodness-of-fit test [30,47,48]. Other popular parametric distributions are Gamma and Long-tail.…”