Approximating the number of successes in independent trials: binomial versus Poisson

DOI10.1214/aoap/1037125856zbMath1019.60018MaRDI QIDQ1872368

Kwok Pui Choi, Aihua Xia

Publication date: 6 May 2003

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aoap/1037125856

zbMATH Keywords

total variation approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

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