Handbook of the Normal Distribution, Second Edition"Traces the historical development of the normal law. Second Edition offers a comprehensive treatment of the bivariate normal distribution--presenting entirely new material on normal integrals, asymptotic normality, the asymptotic properties of order statistics, and point estimation and statistical intervals." |
Contents
A HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 1 |
BASIC PROPERTIES | 19 |
EXPANSIONS AND ALGORITHMS | 45 |
CHARACTERIZATIONS | 81 |
SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS | 113 |
LIMIT THEOREMS AND EXPANSIONS | 145 |
NORMAL APPROXIMATIONS TO DISTRIBUTIONS | 179 |
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Handbook of the Normal Distribution, Second Edition Jagdish K. Patel,Campbell B. Read No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
a₁ Abramowitz and Stegun absolute error accurate algorithm Annals of Mathematical b₁ binomial Biometrika bivariate normal distribution bounds central limit theorem characterization chi-square Communications in Statistics computing continued fraction convergence correlation coefficient cumulants David decimal places defined degrees of freedom discussed expansion Fisher function G₁(x given gives iid random variables independent rvs integral Johnson and Kotz Journal kurtosis Laplace Lehmann Let X1 linear Mathematical Statistics Molenaar moments multivariate mutually independent noncentral normal approximation normal law order statistics Owen parameter pdf g(x Pearson percent points percentiles polynomial prediction intervals probability quantiles random sample ratio regression sample mean sample variance standard deviation standard normal Stuart and Ord T₁ Tables tabulated Theory tolerance interval transformation truncated two-sided UMVU estimator values Wiley York μ₁ σ²
References to this book
Scientific Computation on Mathematical Problems and Conjectures Richard S. Varga No preview available - 1990 |
A Primer on Statistical Distributions Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan,V. B. Nevzorov Limited preview - 2004 |