Kragujevac J. Math. 24 (2002) 135-145.

APPROXIMATIONS OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE SUM OF RANDOM VARIABLES FROM
THE GENERALIZED LOGISTIC DISTRIBUTION

M. O. Ojo

Department of Mathematics, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Nigeria.

Abstract. In this paper, mixture approximations are proposed for the distribution function of the sum of the generalized logistic random variables. These approximations are quite comparable with the existing t-approximation and are indeed simpler to evaluate. Moreover, an added advantage of the new approximations is that statistical tables may not be required for their implementation.