Lognormal sum approximation with a variant of Type IV Pearson distribution

IEEE Communications Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 630-632

  Chen, Shaohua ^a   Nie, Hong ^b   Ayers Glassey, Benjamin ^a  

^a CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Curve fitting; Lognormal distribution; Sum of lognormal random variables; Type IV Pearson variant

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM VARIABLES; STANDARDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATIONS; CURVE FITTING; LOGNORMAL; LOGNORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PEARSON DISTRIBUTIONS; STANDARD TYPE; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SUM OF LOGNORMAL RANDOM VARIABLES; TYPE IV PEARSON VARIANT;

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 52649101997     PISSN: 10897798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2008.080553     Document Type: Article

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