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Theory and Method

A Two-Moment Chi-Square Approximation for the Statistic Log

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Pages 948-950 | Received 01 Apr 1974, Published online: 05 Apr 2012
 

Abstract

A two-moment chi-square approximation is derived for the statistic log , where and are, respectively, the arithmetic and geometric means of a sample from a gamma distribution. The proposed approximation is used for testing the shape parameter in a gamma distribution and for testing the homogeneity of normal population variances.

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