Bounds for the total variation distance between the binomial and the poisson distribution in case of medium-sized success probabilities

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 97-104

  Weba, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accumulated claim distribution; Binomial distribution; Poisson distribution; Risk theory; Total variation distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033238260     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021900200016879     Document Type: Article

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