Simple Approximations for the Inverse Cumulative Function, the Density Function and the Loss Integral of the Normal Distribution

DOI10.2307/2347972zbMath0498.62028OpenAlexW2466402145WikidataQ56057946 ScholiaQ56057946MaRDI QIDQ3963861

Haim Shore

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2347972

zbMATH Keywords

normal distributiondensity functionMills ratioinventory analysisloss integralinverse normalsimple approximationsclosed form solutions to stochastic optimization modelsinverse cumulative function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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