scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4007340

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Authors Iain M. Johnstone, Brenda Macgibbon

Publication date 1987

Full work available at URL http://www.numdam.org/item?id=SPS_1987__21__563_0, https://eudml.org/doc/113615

zbMATH Keywords

criterium for convergence of some discrete measures to the Poisson distributiondiscrete analog of Fisher information measureinformation-theoretic proves of limit theorems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Information theory (general) (94A15) Distribution theory (60E99)

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