Fast and stable algorithms for computing and sampling from the noncentral hypergeometric distribution

American Statistician

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 366-369

  Liao, J G ^a   Rosen, Ori ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

2 2 table; Inverse method; Recursive methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035624395     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313001753272547     Document Type: Article

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