Simulation of right and left truncated gamma distributions by mixtures

Statistics and Computing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Philippe, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Accept reject algorithm; Minimum acceptance probability; Mixture distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043232568     PISSN: 09603174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018534102043     Document Type: Article

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