On Stein's method, smoothing estimates in total variation distance and mixture distributions

DOI10.1016/j.jspi.2011.01.004zbMath1214.62015MaRDI QIDQ2431564

Fraser Daly

Publication date: 15 April 2011

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2011.01.004

zbMATH Keywords

compound Poisson approximation; mixed Poisson distribution; Pólya distribution; mixed binomial distribution; translated Poisson approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E17: Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)

60J80: Branching processes (Galton-Watson, birth-and-death, etc.)

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Negative dependence and stochastic orderings

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