Improved lower bounds on the total variation distance for the Poisson approximation

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2013.07.002zbMath1287.60035arXiv1301.7504OpenAlexW2963837107MaRDI QIDQ2435772

Igal Sason

Publication date: 19 February 2014

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.7504

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson approximationtotal variation distanceChen-Stein method

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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