Exact Statistics and Continued Fractions
Exact Statistics and Continued Fractions
In this paper we investigate an extension to Vuillemin's work on continued fraction arithmetic [Vuillemin 87, Vuillemin 88, Vuillemin 90], that permits it to evaluate the standard statistical distribution functions. By this we mean: the normal distribution, the λ2-distribution, the t-distribution, and, in particular, the F-distribution. The underlying representation of …