Poisson and compound poisson approximations for random sums of random variables

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-137

  Vellaisamy, P ^a   Chaudhuri, B ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Cluster binomial and multinomial distributions; Poisson and compound poisson approximations; Random sums

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030537541     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002190020010378X     Document Type: Article

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