Rates of Poisson convergence for some coverage and urn problems using coupling

DOI10.2307/3214292MaRDI QIDQ3819765zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lars Holst, Joanne E. Kennedy, M. P. Quine

Publication date 1988

Published in Journal of Applied Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3214292

zbMATH Keywords

circle coveragecoupling methodsoccupancy problemsPoisson approximationPolya samplingtotal variation distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial probability (60C05) Geometric probability and stochastic geometry (60D05) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

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