The distribution of a sum of independent binomial random variables

DOI10.1007/S11009-016-9533-4MaRDI QIDQ2397964zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ken Butler, Michael A. Stephens

Publication date 14 August 2017

Published in Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-016-9533-4

zbMATH Keywords

reliabilitysurvival analysisPearson distributionssaddle-pointGram-CharlierKolmogorov-type approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17) Reliability, availability, maintenance, inspection in operations research (90B25) Applications of renewal theory (reliability, demand theory, etc.) (60K10)

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