A new method for obtaining sharp compound Poisson approximation error estimates for sums of locally dependent random variables

DOI10.3150/09-BEJ201zbMath1266.60039arXiv1010.1625MaRDI QIDQ453260

Eutichia Vaggelatou, Michael V. Boutsikas

Publication date: 19 September 2012

Published in: Bernoulli (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.1625

zbMATH Keywords

convergence rate; total variation distance; \(k\)-dependence; ideal metric; Poisson (compound) approximation; sums of independent integer-valued random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

60F05: Central limit and other weak theorems

60G50: Sums of independent random variables; random walks

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