Stein's Method and Stochastic Orderings

DOI10.1239/aap/1339878715zbMath1276.62015arXiv0912.1448OpenAlexW1978383301MaRDI QIDQ2898909

Sergey Utev, Fraser Daly, Claude Lefèvre

Publication date: 12 July 2012

Published in: Advances in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.1448

zbMATH Keywords

birth-death processes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.) (60J80)

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