The distribution of a sum of independent binomial random variables

DOI10.1007/s11009-016-9533-4zbMath1422.62075MaRDI QIDQ2397964

Ken Butler, Michael A. Stephens

Publication date: 14 August 2017

Published in: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-016-9533-4

zbMATH Keywords

reliability; survival analysis; saddle-point; Pearson distributions; Gram-Charlier; Kolmogorov-type approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

90B25: Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

60K10: Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.)

62N02: Estimation in survival analysis and censored data

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