Symbol name / LaTeX command

[Jorge Cardoso]

Hi,

I'm new in this forum, please bare with me

I've been trying to find out the name of the "follows distribution" symbol, but I haven't got any luck.

I know that most of the times we use the "tilde" as in:

Y ~ B(N, p)

but I've seen this:



So, what's the proper way to write this? And does the symbol have a name? does anybody know if there's a LaTeX command to write this?

Thanks,
Jorge

[mp83]

I think it is the symbol for "asymptotically distributed as".

[dmmarathe]

I think the symbol is ' inverted Bold U '

[Jorge Cardoso]

Thanks for the replies.

I tried searching the names you sugested but still no luck at finding the proper LaTeX symbol. I'll probably use the tilde.

Thanks,
jorge

[mp83]

I checked it in an old regression textbook I have,it is indeed "asymptotically distributed as". So you can use the tilde and an "a" over it.

[Rounds]

Interesting. I generally see a tilde with a dot over it (approximately distributed as) where we mean 'asymptotically distributed as'. I suppose it doesn't hurt to be more specific.