A Study of the Accuracy of Some Approximations for t, χ 2 , and F Tail Probabilities

DOI10.2307/2286652zbMATH Open0399.62019OpenAlexW4229556965MaRDI QIDQ4184071FDOQ4184071

Authors: Robert F. Ling 

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Journal of the American Statistical Association (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2286652

zbMATH Keywords

DistributionChi Square DistributionF DistributionMaximum Absolute ErrorNumerical AccuracyTail Probability Approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical distribution theory (62E99)

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• On a sharper lower bound for a percentile of a Student's \(t\) distribution with an application
• A simple approximation relation between the symmetric generalized logistic and the students t distributions
• The Poisson and chi-squared approximations as compared with the true upper-tail probability of Pearson's \(X^ 2\) for equiprobable multinomials
• Power transformation of the F distribution and a power normal family

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