A note on Stirling's expansion for factorial n

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(88)90040-5MaRDI QIDQ1119331zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors 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

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

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