Density of the ratio of two normal random variables and applications

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1569-1591

  Pham Gia, T ^a   Turkkan, N ^a   Marchand, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bivariate normal; Finite sampling; Hermite function; Integral representation; Kummer confluent hypergeometric function; Normal; Ratio

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; FUNCTIONS; GEOMETRY; OPERATIONS RESEARCH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIVARIATE NORMAL; FINITE SAMPLING; HERMITE FUNCTION; INTEGRAL REPRESENTATION; KUMMER CONFLUENT HYPERGEOMETRIC FUNCTION; NONSTANDARDIZED VARIABLES;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 33749032126     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920600683689     Document Type: Article

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