Almost-Binomial Random Variables

DOI10.2307/1559038MaRDI QIDQ4803832zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter M. Thompson

Publication date 2002

Published in The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1559038

zbMATH Keywords

almost binomial approximationsalmost-binomial random variablesconditional Bernoulli distributionserror boundsPoisson approximationsPoisson-binomial distributionssums of hypergeometric random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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