A review of results on sums of random variables

DOI10.1007/s10440-008-9224-4zbMath1146.60012OpenAlexW1966538802MaRDI QIDQ944904

Saralees Nadarajah

Publication date: 10 September 2008

Published in: Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10440-008-9224-4

zbMATH Keywords

Weibull distributionGamma distributionRayleigh distributionExponential distributionLognormal distributionSums

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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