A Note on Computing the Noncentrality Parameter of the Noncentral F-Distribution
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation
- Vol. 19 (4) , 1497-1511
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610919008812932
Abstract
In this paper we present a modification to Newton's method that is suitable for computing percentage points as well as other parameter estimation. The method is locally quadratically convergent.Keywords
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