Almost-Binomial Random Variables

DOI10.2307/1559038zbMath1037.60012OpenAlexW2325634448MaRDI QIDQ4803832

Peter M. Thompson

Publication date: 2002

Published in: The College Mathematics Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/1559038

zbMATH Keywords

error boundsPoisson approximationsalmost binomial approximationsalmost-binomial random variablesconditional Bernoulli distributionsPoisson-binomial distributionssums of hypergeometric random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Infinitely divisible distributions; stable distributions (60E07) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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