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Research article2008Peer reviewedOpen access

The distribution of McKay's approximation for the coefficient of variation

Forkman, Johannes; Verrill, Steve

Abstract

McKay's chi-square approximation for the coefficient of variation is type II noncentral beta distributed and asymptotically normal with mean n - 1 and variance smaller than 2(n - 1). (C) 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Keywords

coefficient of variation; McKay's approximation; noncentral beta distribution

Published in

Statistics and Probability Letters
2008, volume: 78, number: 1, pages: 10-14
Publisher: Elsevier

SLU Authors

  • Forkman, Johannes

    • Department of Biometry and Engineering, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

UKÄ Subject classification

Probability Theory and Statistics

Publication identifier

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2007.04.018

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/17695