Exact Kolmogorov and total variation distances between some familiar discrete distributions

DOI10.1155/JIA/2006/64307MaRDI QIDQ2491586zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors José A. Adell, Pedro Jodrá

Publication date 29 May 2006

Published in Journal of Inequalities and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/126183

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Distribution theory (60E99)

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