Libstable: Fast, parallel, and high-precision computation of α-stable distributions in R, C/C++, and MATLAB

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 78, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Royuela del Val, Javier ^a   Simmross Wattenberg, Federico ^a   Alberola López, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Numerical calculation; Parallel processing; stable distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020421331     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v078.i01     Document Type: Article

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