Approximating gamma distributions by normalized negative binomial distributions

DOI10.2307/3215032MaRDI QIDQ4305642zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors José A. Adell, Jesús de la Cal

Publication date 13 October 1994

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3215032

zbMATH Keywords

Bernstein-type operatorscharged multiplicity distributionsgamma distribution functionnegative binomial distribution functionrate of convergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations and expansions (41A99) Laplace transform (44A10) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35)

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