Two-moment approximations for maxima

Operations Research

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 532-548

  Crow IV, Charles S ^a   Goldberg, David ^b   Whitt, Ward ^c  

^a MIT ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Probability, distributions: maximum of independent random variables; Probability, distributions: two moment approximations

Indexed keywords

COEFFICIENT OF VARIATION; TWO-MOMENT APPROXIMATIONS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 38549104608     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: 15265463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.1060.0375     Document Type: Article

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