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Pocket-Calculator Approximation to the Normal Tail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2009

Jinn-Tyan Lin
Jinn-Tyan Lin
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics Feng ChiaUniversity Taichung, Taiwan, Republic of China
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Abstract

This paper proposes a pocket-calculator approximation to the normal tail that is more convenient and more accurate than Hamaker's [1] and Lew's [2] over a wide range, when measured in terms of the number of keystrokes and absolute relative error, respectively.

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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 4 , Issue 4 , October 1990 , pp. 531 - 533
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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