A representation for multinomial cumulative distribution functions

DOI10.1214/AOS/1176345593MaRDI QIDQ1157853zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bruce R. Levin

Publication date 1981

Published in The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176345593

zbMATH Keywords

generating functionsrepresentationsconditional distribution of independent Poisson random variablesmaximum cell distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Multivariate distribution of statistics (62H10) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Exact enumeration problems, generating functions (05A15) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60)

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