Compound poisson approximations for sums of discrete nonlattice variables

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 228-250

  Cekanavicius V ^a   Wang, Y H ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b TUNGHAI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Compound poisson distribution; Signed compound Poisson measure; Uniform distance

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

DISCRETE NONLATTICE VARIABLES; POISSON APPROXIMATIONS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0037359169     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1046366107     Document Type: Article

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