Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications, and Computation

Statistical Tolerance Regions: Theory, Applications, and Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-461

  Krishnamoorthy, K ^a   Mathew, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINEAR REGRESSION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; MULTI-VARIATE NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; MULTIVARIATE LINEAR REGRESSION MODEL; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE DETERMINATION; THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84947725003     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470473900     Document Type: Book

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