New approximations for the distribution of the r-scan statistic

被引:2
作者
Su, XP [1 ]
Wallenstein, S [1 ]
机构
[1] CUNY Mt Sinai Sch Med, Dept Biomath Sci, New York, NY 10029 USA
关键词
Polya-Aeppli distribution; compound Poisson approximation; declumping;
D O I
10.1016/S0167-7152(99)00135-2
中图分类号
O21 [概率论与数理统计]; C8 [统计学];
学科分类号
020208 ; 070103 ; 0714 ;
摘要
New approximations are given for the distribution of the length of the ith (i greater than or equal to 1) smallest intervals containing r points, when N observations are randomly distributed on the unit interval, with primary emphasis on the case where N is a random variable, (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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页码:411 / 419
页数:9
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