From: John Robertson <jpr2718@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Gaussian distribution represented by polynomial functions
Date: 9 Oct 2000 00:30:01 -0500
Newsgroups: sci.math.research
Summary: [missing]

In article <iqwvztl9dx1a@forum.mathforum.com>,
  manuel@fct.unl.pt (Manuel Costa) wrote:

> I want to represent the normalized gaussian distribution using
> polynomial[s].
> Manuel

For the normal distribution, see

Algorithm AS66 Applied Statistics (1973) (Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society, Series C) vol 22 no.3

Algorithm 5666 for the error function, from Hart, J.F. et al, 'Computer
Approximations', Wiley 1968

Adams, A.G. Areas Under The Normal Curve, Algorithm 39, Computer J.,
Vol. 12, 197-8, 1969.

For the inverse normal distribution, see

Algorithm AS241  Appl. Statist. (1988) Vol. 37, No. 3, 477-484.




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