An approximation method for bivariate and multvariate normal equiprobability contours
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
- Vol. 18 (6) , 2331-2344
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928908830039
Abstract
This paper presents a very simple approximation, having “graph” accuracy, for calculating bivariate normal probability contours. Such contours are useful in simultaneous inference and other applications. This method is then adapted to approximate roughly bivariate and multivariate normal union probabilities.Keywords
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