Highly accurate simple closed-form approximations to lognormal sum distributions and densities

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 709-711

  Beaulieu, Norman C ^a   Rajwani, Faruq ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lognormal sums; Probability distributions

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLOSED FORM APPROXIMATIONS; CUMULATIVE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; LOGNORMAL SUMS;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 11844253851     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2004.837657     Document Type: Article

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