On the Medians of Gamma Distributions and an Equation of Ramanujan

DOI10.2307/2160389zbMath0803.62007OpenAlexW4250668832MaRDI QIDQ4299250

Kwok Pui Choi

Publication date: 5 January 1995

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2160389

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic expansionPoisson distributionmedianchi-square distributiongamma distributionRamanujan's equationPoisson-Gamma relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Characterization and structure theory of statistical distributions (62E10) Series expansions (e.g., Taylor, Lidstone series, but not Fourier series) (41A58)

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Uses Software

• Maple

Cites Work

• Special cases of second order Wiener germ approximations
• Bounds for the difference between median and mean of gamma and Poisson distributions
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