Asymptotics and Bounds for the Modes of Noncentral Distributions

Statistics and Risk Modeling

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 291-310

  Aubel, Andrea Van ^a   Gawronski, W ^b  

^a BREDOWALLEE 11   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

mode; Noncentral distributions; unimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012660183     PISSN: 21931402     EISSN: 21967040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/strm.2000.18.3.291     Document Type: Article

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