Kerstan's method for compound Poisson approximation

Annals of Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1754-1771

  Roos, Bero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson approximation; Discrete self decomposable distributions; Discrete unimodal distributions; Finite signed measure; Kerstan's method; Sums of independent random variables; Total variation distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344668860     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1068646365     Document Type: Article

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