A New Special Function and Its Application in Probability

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Auteurs principaux: Rafik, Zeraoulia, Salas, Alvaro H, Ocampo, David L
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author Rafik, Zeraoulia
Salas, Alvaro H
Ocampo, David L
author_facet Rafik, Zeraoulia
Salas, Alvaro H
Ocampo, David L
contents In this note we present a new special function that behaves like the error function and we provide an approximated accurate closed form for its CDF in terms of both Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the error function. Also, we provide its series representation using Padé approximant. We show convincing numerical evidence of an accuracy of $10^{-6}$ for the approximants in the sense of the quadratic mean norm. A similar approach may be applied to other probability distributions, for example, the Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution and the normal distribution, and we show its application using both of those distributions.
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spellingShingle A New Special Function and Its Application in Probability
Rafik, Zeraoulia
Salas, Alvaro H
Ocampo, David L
General Mathematics
33C45, 33B20, 41A10, 60E05, 82B31
In this note we present a new special function that behaves like the error function and we provide an approximated accurate closed form for its CDF in terms of both Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the error function. Also, we provide its series representation using Padé approximant. We show convincing numerical evidence of an accuracy of $10^{-6}$ for the approximants in the sense of the quadratic mean norm. A similar approach may be applied to other probability distributions, for example, the Maxwell--Boltzmann distribution and the normal distribution, and we show its application using both of those distributions.
title A New Special Function and Its Application in Probability
topic General Mathematics
33C45, 33B20, 41A10, 60E05, 82B31
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.22224