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.
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A nonuniform bound for the approximation of Poisson binomial by Poisson distribution
Received18 Dec 2002
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