Compound poisson approximation and the clustering of random points

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 19-38

  Barbour, A D ^a   Månsson, Marianne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson approximation; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002754840     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0001867800009745     Document Type: Article

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