Solving the Stein equation in compound poisson approximation

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 449-475

  Barbour, A D ^a   Utev, Sergey ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Compound poisson; Distributional approximation; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000150105     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800047376     Document Type: Article

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