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MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Some Improvements in Numerical Evaluation of Symmetric Stable Density and Its Derivatives

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Pages 149-172 | Received 27 Aug 2004, Accepted 24 Jun 2005, Published online: 15 Feb 2007

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