On the Poisson approximation of multinomial probabilities

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(85)90013-6MaRDI QIDQ1057007zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. A. Ahmad

Publication date 1985

Published in Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(85)90013-6

zbMATH Keywords

random sample sizedeviation between the multinomial and Poisson probabilitiesPoisson approximation of multinomial probabilitiesrandomly stopped experiments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20)

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