A note on Stirling's expansion for factorial n
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instance of: scholarly article
title: A note on Stirling's expansion for factorial n
zbMATH Open document ID: 0671.65013
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(88)90040-5
author: Adrienne W. Kemp
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: A new approximation to the Stirling expansion for \(n!=\Gamma (n+1)\) is proposed. By means of this approximation the values of n! may be computed faster and with sufficient accuracy. Thus the proposed approximation is better suited for computer use than the older ones. An algorithm for generating Poisson variables is presented as an application example.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65D20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 33B15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 65C99
zbMATH DE Number: 4098601
zbMATH Keywords: factorial
zbMATH Keywords: Stirling expansion
zbMATH Keywords: algorithm
zbMATH Keywords: Poisson variables
reviewed by: Piotr Staniewski
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0167-7152(88)90040-5
OpenAlex ID: W1966025657
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description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4098601