General saddlepoint approximations and normalizing transformations for multivariate statistics

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2541-2563

  Tsuchiya, Takahiro ^a   Konishi, Sadanori ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL MATHEMATICS   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Approximate cumulant generating function: Fisher's z transformation; Sample canonical correlations; Tail probabilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346446083     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708832065     Document Type: Article

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