Using Pearson correlation to improve envelopes around the distributions of functions

Reliable Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-161

  Berleant, Daniel ^a   Zhang, Jianzhong ^a  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SAMPLING;

CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; DISTRIBUTION ENVELOPE DETERMINATION; PEARSON CORRELATION; RANDOM VARIABLE;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 1242265352     PISSN: 13853139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:REOM.0000015850.27690.3b     Document Type: Article

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