A simple approximation relation between the symmetric generalized logistic and the student's t distributions

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1029-1039

  Li, Baibing ^a   De Moor, Bart ^a  

^a Katholieke Universiteit Leuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Approximation distribution; Student's t distribution; Symmetric generalized logistic distribution

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; FUNCTIONS;

APPROXIMATION DISTRIBUTION; STUDENT T DISTRIBUTION; SYMMETRIC GENERALIZED LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 0031337868     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919708813423     Document Type: Article

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