Poisson approximation for a sum of dependent indicators: An alternative approach

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 609-625

  Papadatos, N ^a   Papathanasiou, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Birthday problem; Chen Stein equation; Monotone coupling; Negatively related indicator; Poisson approximation; Total variation distance; Totally negatively dependent indicator

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FUNCTIONS; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOM PROCESSES; VECTORS;

RANDOM VARIABLES;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0036754022     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1033662168     Document Type: Article

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