Binomial approximation to the Poisson binomial distribution

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(91)90170-VzbMATH Open0724.60021WikidataQ61387137 ScholiaQ61387137MaRDI QIDQ757966FDOQ757966

Authors: Werner Ehm 

Publication date: 1991

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

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zbMATH Keywords

binomialPoisson binomialsampling with and without replacementvariation distancemultivariate hypergeometric

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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