Sharp estimates for the median of the \(\Gamma\)(\(n\)+1,1) distribution

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2004.10.025zbMath1074.60011OpenAlexW1581903297MaRDI QIDQ2483853

José A. Adell, Pedro Jodrá

Publication date: 1 August 2005

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2004.10.025

zbMATH Keywords

Taylor's formulaupper and lower boundscentral limit theoremPoisson processCharlier polynomialsChoi inequalitiesmedian of the gamma distributionmedian of the Poisson distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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