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Uppuluri, VRR and Patil, SA (1985)

The distribution of the first j digits of beta related random variables

Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation 14(2), 467-472.

ISSN/ISBN: Not available at this time. DOI: 10.1080/03610918508812450



Abstract: This paper gives the discrete distribution of the first j significant digits of two random variables: (1) a beta variable with integer parameter n and the other parameter m>0, and (2) the reciprocal of (1). As a special case for n=1, we obtain the distribution of the first j significant digits of the pwoers of uniformly distributed random variables. These generalize the results of Kennard and Reith (1981) and Friedberg (1984), who considered only uniformly distributed random variables.


Bibtex:
@article{, title={The distribution of the first j digits of beta related random variables}, author={Uppuluri, VRR and Patil, SA}, journal={Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation}, volume={14}, number={2}, pages={467--472}, year={1985}, publisher={Taylor \& Francis}, doi={10.1080/03610918508812450} }


Reference Type: Journal Article

Subject Area(s): Probability Theory