Minimax approximation to lognormal sum distributions

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 1061-1065

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Xie, Qiong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LINEARIZATION;

LOGNORMAL RANDOM VARIABLES;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0042471589     PISSN: 07400551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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