Symbolic computation of moments of sampling distributions

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 4909-4922

  Di Nardo, E ^a   Guarino, G ^b   Senato, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SAMPLING; SET THEORY;

SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 46549087596     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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