Compound Poisson approximation for nonnegative random variables via Stein's method

DOI10.1214/aop/1176989531zbMath0765.60015OpenAlexW1992906313MaRDI QIDQ1203658

Louis H. Y. Chen, Wei-Liem Loh, Andrew David Barbour

Publication date: 22 February 1993

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176989531

zbMATH Keywords

Stein's methodBanach spacetotal variation metriccompound Poisson distributioncompound Poisson measureequiprobable allocations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10)

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