The smallest uniform upper bound on the distance between the mean and the median of the binomial and Poisson distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(94)00090-UzbMath0819.60017OpenAlexW2060873943WikidataQ56039131 ScholiaQ56039131MaRDI QIDQ1892110

Kais Hamza

Publication date: 21 August 1995

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(94)00090-u

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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