Two-parametric compound binomial approximations

Lithuanian Mathematical Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 354-373

  Cekanavicius V ^a   Roos, B ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Compound binomial distribution; Concentration function; Kolmogorov norm; Shifted distributions; Stein's method; Symmetric distributions; Total variation norm

Indexed keywords

EID: 21544442017     PISSN: 03631672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10986-005-0014-7     Document Type: Article

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