Approximation for counts of head runs

DOI10.1007/s11425-010-4104-6zbMath1218.60020OpenAlexW2083736376MaRDI QIDQ547351

Mei Zhang

Publication date: 1 July 2011

Published in: Science China. Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11425-010-4104-6

zbMATH Keywords

Stein's methodPoisson distributionnegative binomial distributioncouplingbinomial distributiontotal variation distancehead run

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Markov chains (discrete-time Markov processes on discrete state spaces) (60J10)

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