Asymptotic estimates of elementary probability distributions

Studies in Applied Mathematics

Volumn 99, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 393-417

  Hwang, Hsien Kuei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ASYMPTOTIC ESTIMATES; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTION; DISTRIBUTION-FUNCTIONS; ERROR BOUND; OTHER DISCRETE; PROBABILITY: DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 0040095805     PISSN: 00222526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9590.00065     Document Type: Article

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