Variance stabilizing transformations of Poisson, binomial and negative binomial distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 79, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 1621-1629

  Yu, Guan ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 67349097404     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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