The maximum difference between the binomial and Poisson distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(91)90125-BzbMATH Open0712.62012OpenAlexW2130426610MaRDI QIDQ749070FDOQ749070

Authors: H. Vincent Poor 

Publication date: 1991

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(91)90125-b

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zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributionprobability mass functioncumulative distributionExplicit expressionsmaximum errorPoisson approximants

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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• An approximation theorem for the Poisson binomial distribution
• The Poisson Approximation to the Poisson Binomial Distribution
• Some Elementary Results on Poisson Approximation in a Sequence of Bernoulli Trials
• Approximation der Verteilungen von Summen unabhängiger nichtnegativer ganzzahliger Zufallsgrößen durch Poissonsche Verteilungen
• A general Poisson approximation theorem
• The total variation distance between the binomial and Poisson distributions

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