The Wilson-Hilferty transformation is locally saddlepoint

Biometrika

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 445-453

  Terrell, George R ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exponential tilting; Normalising transform; Small sample asymptotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 3843101354     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/90.2.445     Document Type: Article

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