A bound for the distribution of the sum of discrete associated or negatively associated random variables.

DOI10.1214/aoap/1019487610zbMath1073.60507MaRDI QIDQ1872485

Michael V. Boutsikas, Markos V. Koutras

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/1019487610

zbMATH Keywords

rate of convergence; probability metrics; compound Poisson approximation; negative association; positive-negative dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60E15: Inequalities; stochastic orderings

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

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