Improvements in the Poisson approximation of mixed Poisson distributions

DOI10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00095-2zbMath1015.60014MaRDI QIDQ1873086

Bero Roos

Publication date: 19 May 2003

Published in: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

negative binomial distributionPoisson approximationprobability metricsasymptotic relationssharp constanttotal variation distancemixed Poisson distributionweak moment conditionsfinite signed measures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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