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New Approximations for the Percentage Points of the Chi-Square Distribution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Jinn-Tyan Lin
Jinn-Tyan Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan, R.O.C
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Abstract

Techniques of exploratory data analysis are used in the construction of simple approximations for the percentage points of the chi-square distribution. The approximations are direct functions of the degrees of freedom and the tail probability. They are more accurate than Hoaglin's approximations.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1994 , pp. 135 - 146
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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