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EXPANSIONS FOR SUMS OF RAYLEIGHS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2009

Christopher S. Withers  and
Saralees Nadarajah
Christopher S. Withers
Affiliation:
Applied Mathematics Group, Industrial Research Limited, Lower Hutt, New Zealand E-mail: c.withers@irl.cri.nz
Saralees Nadarajah
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK, E-mail: mbbsssn2@manchester.ac.uk
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Abstract

Expressions for the distribution, density, and percentiles of weighted sums of Rayleigh random variables are given, including the tilted Edgeworth expansion.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , July 2009 , pp. 481 - 487
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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