TY - BOOK AU - Askey,Richard AU - Ismail,Mourad ED - American Mathematical Society. TI - Recurrence relations, continued fractions, and orthogonal polynomials T2 - Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society, SN - 9781470407100 (online) AV - QA3QA404.5 .A57 no. 300 U1 - 510 s515/.55 19 PY - 1984///] CY - Providence, R.I., USA PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Orthogonal polynomials KW - Continued fractions KW - Distribution (Probability theory) N1 - "May 1984."; Bibliography: p. 104-107; 1. Introduction; 2. Continued fractions and orthogonal polynomials; 3. The AI-Salam-Chihara polynomials; 4. Probability theory and orthogonal polynomials; 5. The Hadamard integral; 6. The random walk polynomials $G_n(x;a,b)$; 7. A $q$-extension of the random walk polynomials; 8. The polynomials $\{C^\alpha _n(x;\beta |-1)\}$; 9. Comments and further problems; 10. Addenda with additional references; Access is restricted to licensed institutions; Electronic reproduction; Providence, Rhode Island; American Mathematical Society; 2012 UR - http://www.ams.org/memo/0300 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/memo/0300 ER -