Some monotonicity and limit results for the regularised incomplete gamma function

Wojciech Chojnacki

Annales Polonici Mathematici (2008)

  • Volume: 94, Issue: 3, page 283-291
  • ISSN: 0066-2216

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Letting P(u,x) denote the regularised incomplete gamma function, it is shown that for each α ≥ 0, P(x,x+α) decreases as x increases on the positive real semi-axis, and P(x,x+α) converges to 1/2 as x tends to infinity. The statistical significance of these results is explored.

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Wojciech Chojnacki. "Some monotonicity and limit results for the regularised incomplete gamma function." Annales Polonici Mathematici 94.3 (2008): 283-291. <http://eudml.org/doc/280704>.

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