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A FOUR‐MOMENT APPROXIMATION BASED ON THE F DISTRIBUTION
Author(s) -
Tiku M. L.,
Yip D. Y. N.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1978.tb01108.x
Subject(s) - moment (physics) , distribution (mathematics) , equating , mathematics , moment distribution method , mathematical analysis , mathematical physics , physics , statistics , classical mechanics , rasch model , parametric statistics
In this note, a four‐moment approximation based on the F‐distribution is obtained by equating the first four moments on both sides of the equation F(X + g)/h , where F has the central F‐distribution having (v 1 v 2 ) degrees of freedom. The usefulness of this approximation is illustrated.