Poisson approximation of multivariate Poisson mixtures

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 376-390

  Roos, Bero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Finite signed measure; Generalized compound mixed Poisson distribution; Generalized multinomial distribution; Generalized negative multinomial distribution; Multivariate Poisson approximation; Multivariate Poisson mixture; Risk theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041912636     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1053003550     Document Type: Article

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