Compound poisson approximation for sums of dependent random variables

Probability and Statistical Models with Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 63-86

  Boutsikas, Michael V ^a   Koutras, Markos V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson approximation; Kolmogorov distance; Moving sums; Rate of convergence; Success runs in a Markov chain; Sums of dependent variables

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EID: 0008676446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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