On the rate of poisson process approximation to a Bernoulli process

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 898-907

  Xia, Aihua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coupling; Immigration death process; Palm distributions; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI PROCESS; LOGARITHMIC FACTOR; PALM THEORY; STEINS METHOD; WASSERSTEIN DISTANCE;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SET THEORY;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0031295398     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200101603     Document Type: Article

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