Approximating the negative moments of the Poisson distribution.

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2003.09.006zbMath1104.62012OpenAlexW2023300596MaRDI QIDQ1423031

C. Matthew Jones, Anatoly A. Zhigljavsky

Publication date: 14 February 2004

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2003.09.006

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionStirling numbers of the first kindNegative moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Bell and Stirling numbers (11B73) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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