Article ID: | iaor1999387 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 288 |
End Page Number: | 296 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1997 |
Journal: | INFORMS Journal On Computing |
Authors: | Leemis Lawrence M., Glen Andrew G., Drew John H. |
We present a generalized version of the univariate change-of-variable technique for transforming continuous random variables. Extending a theorem from Casella and Berger for many-to-1 transformations, we consider more general univariate transformations. Specifically, the transformation can range from 1-to-1 to many-to-1 on various subsets of the support of the random variable of interest. We also present an implementation of the theorem in a computer algebra system that automates the technique. Some examples demonstrate the theorem's application.