Tutorial on large deviations for the binomial distribution (Q1114218)
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Tutorial on large deviations for the binomial distribution (English)
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1989
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This paper introduces the concept of large deviations and its use in applications. There are easy to handle formulas for the approximation of the probability of k or more successes in n independent trials, each with success probability p, when the specified fraction of successes, \(a=k/n\), satisfies \(0<p<a<1\).
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binomial distribution
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large deviations
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