Approximating the Distribution of the Scan Statistic Using Moments of the Number of Clumps

DOI10.2307/2965417zbMath0914.62010OpenAlexW4253129953MaRDI QIDQ4376023

Fred W. Huffer, Chien-Tai Lin

Publication date: 4 March 1998

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2965417

zbMATH Keywords

spacingsMarkov chain approximationcompound Poisson approximations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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