Compound Poisson process approximation for locally dependent real-valued random variables via a new coupling inequality

Bernoulli

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 501-514

  Boutsikas, Michael V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Compound Poisson process approximation; Coupling inequality; Law of small numbers; Locally dependent variables; Moving sums; Rate of convergence; Success runs; Total variation distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846093624     PISSN: 13507265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3150/bj/1151525133     Document Type: Article

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