Stirling’s Approximation for Central Extended Binomial Coefficients

DOI10.4169/AMER.MATH.MONTHLY.121.04.344zbMATH Open1344.11028DBLPjournals/tamm/Eger14arXiv1203.2122OpenAlexW2962844054WikidataQ58303117 ScholiaQ58303117MaRDI QIDQ2928626FDOQ2928626

Authors: Steffen Eger 

Publication date: 10 November 2014

Published in: American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We derive asymptotic formulas for central extended binomial coefficients, which are generalizations of binomial coefficients. To do so, we relate the exact distribution of the sum of independent discrete uniform random variables to the asymptotic distribution, obtained from the Central Limit Theorem and a local limit variant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1203.2122

zbMATH Keywords

central limit theoremrandom variablesbinomial coefficientsStirling approximationextended binomial coefficients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Factorials, binomial coefficients, combinatorial functions (05A10) Asymptotic results on arithmetic functions (11N37) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

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