The Poisson distribution as a limit for dependent binomial events with unequal probabilities

DOI10.1287/OPRE.3.2.198zbMATH Open1414.62503OpenAlexW2100041115MaRDI QIDQ5378649FDOQ5378649

Authors: John E. Walsh 

Publication date: 3 June 2019

Published in: Journal of the Operations Research Society of America (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.3.2.198

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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