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Activity Number: 345 - Computationally Intensive Methods
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Computing
Abstract #322732 View Presentation
Title: A Two-Stage Algorithm for Computation of the Exact Distribution of Sums of Spacings
Author(s): Chien-Tai Lin* and Chung-Tao Lu
Companies: Tamkang University and E.Sun Bank
Keywords: Circular Scan Statistic ; Multiple Coverage Problems ; Spacings ; Symbolic Computation
Abstract:

Based on the recursions in Huffer (1988) and Huffer and Lin (2001), we present a two-stage algorithm and two specialized methods for evaluating the probabilities involving linear combination of spacings of special forms. The two-stage algorithm combines the advantages of marking algorithm in Huffer and Lin (1997) and general algorithm in Huffer and Lin (2001). The proposed methods can analytically derive the exact expressions for some specific problems, and efficiently handle problems such as the distribution of the circular scan statistic and multiple coverage probabilities.


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