Applications of compound poisson approximation

Probability and Statistical Models with Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 41-62

  Barbour, A D ^a   Chryssaphinou, O ^b   Vaggelatou, E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson approximation; Sequence comparison; Stein s method; Success runs; Word counts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010486053     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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