Total variation asymptotics for sums of independent integer random variables

Annals of Probability

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 509-545

  Barbour, A D ^a   Cekanavicius V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson; Kolmogorov's problem; Stein's method; Total variation distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036018189     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1023481001     Document Type: Article

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