Closed form summation for classical distributions: variations on a theme of de Moivre

DOI10.1214/ss/1177011699zbMath0955.60500MaRDI QIDQ1596024

Persi Diaconis, Sandy L. Zabell

Publication date: 7 February 2001

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/ss/1177011699

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E15: Exact distribution theory in statistics

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

60-03: History of probability theory

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