Moment-Based Approximations of Probability Mass Functions with Applications Involving Order Statistics

DOI10.1080/03610920902835052zbMATH Open1167.62017OpenAlexW2014936426MaRDI QIDQ3391841FDOQ3391841

Authors: Serge B. Provost, Min Jiang, Hyung-Tae Ha 

Publication date: 13 August 2009

Published in: Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920902835052

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zbMATH Keywords

momentstablesdiscrete distributionscomputational statisticsorder statisticsapproximate distributionsrank-sum statistics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30)

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