Simple accurate lognormal approximation to lognormal sums

Electronics Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 1016-1017

  Santos Filho, J C S ^a   Cardieri, P ^a   Yacoub, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LOGNORMAL SUMS; LOGNORMAL VARIATES; SUM STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 25444454351     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20052207     Document Type: Article

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