Stirling's formula via the poisson distribution

American Mathematical Monthly

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 256-258

  Pinsky, Mark A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34147136626     PISSN: 00029890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00029890.2007.11920413     Document Type: Article

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2. T.-C. Hu, A statistical method of approach to Stirling's formula, Amer. Statist. 42 (1988) 204-205.