![Sometimes you need to reverse the data before you fit a distribution](https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/files/2016/11/negskew2.png)
Occasionally on a discussion forum, a statistical programmer will ask a question like the following: I am trying to fit a parametric distribution to my data. The sample has a long tail, so I have tried the lognormal, Weibull, and gamma distributions, but nothing seems to fit. Please help!! In