Computing chernoff’s distribution

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 388-400

  Groeneboom, Piet ^a   Wellner, Jon A ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Airy functions; Brownian motion; Density; Distribution function; Monotone; Parabolic drift; Quadratic drift; Quantiles

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035628752     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: 15372715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/10618600152627997     Document Type: Article

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