The maximum difference between the binomial and Poisson distributions
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instance of: scholarly article
title: The maximum difference between the binomial and Poisson distributions
zbMATH Open document ID: 0712.62012
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(91)90125-B
author: H. Vincent Poor
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62E17
zbMATH DE Number: 4172138
zbMATH Keywords: Explicit expressions
zbMATH Keywords: maximum error
zbMATH Keywords: binomial distribution
zbMATH Keywords: Poisson approximants
zbMATH Keywords: cumulative distribution
zbMATH Keywords: probability mass function
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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