Two simple approximations to the distributions of quadratic forms

British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 273-291

  Yuan, Ke Hai ^a   Bentler, Peter M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PSYCHOMETRICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 77951255112     PISSN: 00071102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000711009X449771     Document Type: Article

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