IJPAM: Volume 91, No. 1 (2014)
AN IMPROVED GEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
TO APPROXIMATE THE YULE DISTRIBUTION
TO APPROXIMATE THE YULE DISTRIBUTION
K. Teerapabolarn
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Abstract. An improved geometric distribution with parameter is derived to approximate the Yule distribution with parameter
, where
. The improved approximation is more accurate than the geometric approximation when
is sufficiently large.
Received: November 22, 2013
AMS Subject Classification: 62E17, 60F05
Key Words and Phrases: geometric approximation, geometric probability function, Yule probability function
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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v91i1.9 How to cite this paper?
Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2014
Volume: 91
Issue: 1