Evaluation and Inversion of the Ratios of Modified Bessel Functions, I 1 ( x ) / I 0 ( x

DOI10.1145/355945.355949zbMath0473.65005OpenAlexW1966463020MaRDI QIDQ3928122

Geoffrey W. Hill

Publication date: 1981

Published in: ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1145/355945.355949

zbMATH Keywords

continued fraction expansionsmaximum likelihood estimatesratios of modified Bessel functionsbackward recursionFisher's distributionNewton-Raphson improvementsvon Mises' distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Bessel and Airy functions, cylinder functions, ({}_0F_1) (33C10) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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