On the accuracy of approximation of the negative binomial distribution by the gamma distribution and convergence rate of the distributions of some statistics to the Student distribution

DOI10.1007/s10958-015-2227-6zbMath1353.62024MaRDI QIDQ493858

Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg

Publication date: 4 September 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-015-2227-6

zbMATH Keywords

negative binomial distribution; gamma distribution; Student's \(t\)-distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

60E05: Probability distributions: general theory