Approximating tail areas of probability distributions

DOI10.1214/aos/1176344380zbMath0391.60020OpenAlexW2028507334MaRDI QIDQ1251417

Alan J. Gross, David W. jun. Hosmer

Publication date: 1978

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344380

zbMATH Keywords

Binomial DistributionChi-Square DistributionsDiscrete DistributionsMethod For Approximating Tail Areas

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20)

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