  We analyse the charged${\text -}$particle multiplicity distributions measured
by the ALICE experiment, over a wide pseudorapidity range, for $pp$ collisions
at $\sqrt{s}$=8,\,7\,and\, 2.76~TeV at the LHC.~The analysis offers an
understanding of particle production in high energy collisions in the purview
of a new distribution, the shifted Gompertz distribution.~Data are compared
with the distribution and moments of the distributions are calculated.~A
modified version of the distribution is also proposed and used to improve the
description of the data consisting of two different event classes; the
inelastic and the non${\text -}$single${\text -}$diffractive and their subsets
in different windows of pseudorapidity, $\eta$.~The distribution used to
analyse the data has a wide range of applicability to processes in different
fields and complements the analysis done by the ALICE collaboration in terms of
various LHC event generators and IP-Glasma calculations.
