Rate of convergence to Poisson law in terms of information divergence

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2145-2149

  Harremoës, Peter ^a   Ruzankin, Pavel S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL TESTS; THEOREM PROVING;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; INFORMATION DIVERGENCE; KULLBAK-LEIBLER DIVERGENCE; POISSON APPROXIMATION; POISSON LAW; STIRLING NUMBERS;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 4544261302     PISSN: 00189448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIT.2004.833364     Document Type: Article

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