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An Approximation to the Cumulative Normal Distribution with Simple Coefficients
Author(s) -
Lew Robert A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series c (applied statistics)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.205
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9876
pISSN - 0035-9254
DOI - 10.2307/2346355
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , cumulative distribution function , mathematics , distribution (mathematics) , statistics , statistical physics , mathematical analysis , physics , probability density function , philosophy , epistemology
S ummary This note sets out an easily recalled approximation to the cumulative normal distribution in which all but one of the special coefficients equal unity.