An Approximation to the Distribution of the Sample Variance

DOI10.2307/3314982zbMATH Open0543.62012OpenAlexW4246394862MaRDI QIDQ3332071FDOQ3332071

Michael A. Stephens, H. Solomon

Publication date: 1983

Published in: The Canadian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3314982

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zbMATH Keywords

tablesComparisonsdistribution of the sample variancethree-moment approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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