scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4007340

zbMATH Open0621.60028MaRDI QIDQ3757060FDOQ3757060

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

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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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