Three-Point Approximations for Continuous Random Variables

DOI10.1287/mnsc.29.5.595zbMath0511.60018OpenAlexW1980316752MaRDI QIDQ4748895

Donald L. Keefer, Samuel E. Bodily

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Management Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.29.5.595

zbMATH Keywords

beta distributionsthree-point approximationstriangular-density- function approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution theory (60E99) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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