Sharp estimates in signed Poisson approximation of Poisson mixtures

Bernoulli

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-65

  Adell, José Antonio ^a   Lekuona, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Charlier polynomials; Finite signed measure; Poisson approximation; Poisson mixture; Probability metrics

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746640191     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1110228242     Document Type: Article

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