International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 48, Pages 3041-3046
doi:10.1155/S0161171203212229
A nonuniform bound for the approximation of Poisson binomial by
Poisson distribution
Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
Received 18 December 2002
Copyright © 2003 K. Neammanee. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
It is well known that Poisson binomial distribution
can be approximated by Poisson distribution. In this paper, we
give a nonuniform bound of this
approximation by using Stein-Chen method.