The maximum difference between the binomial and Poisson distributions

DOI10.1016/0167-7152(91)90125-BMaRDI QIDQ749070zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

zbMATH Keywords

binomial distributioncumulative distributionExplicit expressionsmaximum errorPoisson approximantsprobability mass function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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