A note on Stirling's expansion for factorial n

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(88)90040-5zbMATH Open0671.65013OpenAlexW1966025657MaRDI QIDQ1119331FDOQ1119331

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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• The self consistent expansion applied to the factorial function
• New algorithms for generating Poisson variates

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