Poisson approximation for (k 1, k 2)-events via the Stein-Chen method

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1081-1092

  Vellaisamy, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

(k 1, k 2) event; Binomial distribution of order (k 1, k 2); Limit theorem; Markov Bernoulli variable; Poisson approximation; Rate of convergence; Stein Chen method

Indexed keywords

EID: 14644408743     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1101840553     Document Type: Article

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