The Wilson-Hilferty transformation is locally saddlepoint

DOI10.1093/biomet/90.2.445zbMath1035.62009OpenAlexW2069947388MaRDI QIDQ4455423

George R. Terrell

Publication date: 16 March 2004

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/90.2.445

zbMATH Keywords

tail probabilitiesexponential tiltingsmall-sample asymptoticsnormalising transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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