The Wilson-Hilferty transformation is locally saddlepoint

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/90.2.445zbMATH Open1035.62009OpenAlexW2069947388MaRDI QIDQ4455423FDOQ4455423

Authors: 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

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zbMATH Keywords

exponential tiltingtail probabilitiessmall-sample asymptoticsnormalising transform

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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