A new semigroup technique in Poisson approximation

DOI10.1007/BF02573230zbMath0674.60026MaRDI QIDQ1121585

Paul Deheuvels, Dietmar Pfeifer, Madan Lal Puri

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Semigroup Forum (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/134953

zbMATH Keywords

probability metricsindependent Bernoulli random variablessemigroup technique for Poisson approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Groups and semigroups of linear operators (47D03) Representation of semigroups; actions of semigroups on sets (20M30)

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