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Original Articles

A Family of Near-Exact Distributions Based on Truncations of the Exact Distribution for the Generalized Wilks Lambda Statistic

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Pages 2321-2341 | Received 07 Jan 2011, Accepted 06 Jul 2011, Published online: 16 May 2012

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