On the probable error of the ratio of two gamma means

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 439-452

  Booth, James G ^a   Hobert, James P ^a   Ohman, Pamela A ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap calibration; Exact test; Monte Carlo; Rejection sampling; Saddlepoint density approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0442283266     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.439     Document Type: Article

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