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An Integral Related to the Confluent Hypergeometric Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

R. E. Beard
R. E. Beard
Affiliation:
Pearl Assurance Co. Ltd.
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Extract

In the course of preparing a paper dealing with statistics relating to fire insurance (Beard, 1957) the need arose to find numerical values of the confluent hypergeometric function for parameter values well outside any tabulated range, and this note is concerned with various approximations investigated in the course of these experiments.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , December 1960 , pp. 296 - 307
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1960

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