An approximation for the noncentral chi-squared distribution

DOI10.1080/03610919808813480zbMath0929.62011OpenAlexW2085310866MaRDI QIDQ4232072

Donald A. S. Fraser, Augustine C. M. Wong, Jian Rong Wu

Publication date: 30 January 2000

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610919808813480

zbMATH Keywords

chi-squared distributionasymptotic inferenceaccurate approximationsignificance functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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