Le Cam's Inequality and Poisson Approximations

DOI10.2307/2325124MaRDI QIDQ4296409zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors J. Michael Steele

Publication date 15 December 1994

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

Full work available at URL https://repository.upenn.edu/oid_papers/271

zbMATH Keywords

Poisson distributionsemigroup methodcoupling methodChen-Stein methodLe Cam's inequalitymatrix analysisapproximation of probability distributionsindependent, non-identically distributed Bernoulli random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15)

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