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An inequality for Mill's ratio for the type III population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

G. Baikunth Nath
G. Baikunth Nath
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University of Queensland
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Mills(7), Gordon(5), Birnbaum(1), and the author(6) have studied the ratio of the area of the standardized normal curve from x to ∞ and the ordinate at x. Des Raj (4) established the monotonic character of, and obtained lower and upper bounds for this ratio for the standardized type III population. This ratio, as shown by Cohen (2) and Des Raj (3), has to be calculated for several values of x when solving approximately the equations involved in the problem of estimating the para-meters of type III populations from truncated samples. When the areas and ordinates are small, either this ratio cannot be obtained from existing tables prepared by Salvosa(8) or that very few significant digits are available for its calculation. The object of this note is to obtain an upper bound which could satisfactorily locate this ratio over the range x > −1.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 73 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 351 - 353
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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