Signed Poisson approximation: A possible alternative to normal and Poisson laws

Bernoulli

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 591-606

  Čekanavičius, Vydas ^a   Kruopis, Julius ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Generalized binomial distribution; Signed poisson measure; Total variation norm; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0013010441     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3318507     Document Type: Article

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