A note on Stirling's expansion for factorial n

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(88)90040-5zbMath0671.65013OpenAlexW1966025657MaRDI QIDQ1119331

Adrienne W. Kemp

Publication date: 1988

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(88)90040-5

zbMATH Keywords

algorithmfactorialPoisson variablesStirling expansion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gamma, beta and polygamma functions (33B15) Computation of special functions and constants, construction of tables (65D20) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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