A note on Poisson approximation.
Deheuvels, Paul
Trabajos de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Tome 36 (1985), p. 101-111 / Harvested from Biblioteca Digital de Matemáticas

We obtain in this note evaluations of the total variation distance and of the Kolmogorov-Smirnov distance between the sum of n random variables with non identical Bernoulli distributions and a Poisson distribution. Some of our results precise bounds obtained by Le Cam, Serfling, Barbour and Hall.

It is shown, among other results, that if p1 = P (X1=1), ..., pn = P (Xn=1) satisfy some appropriate conditions, such that p = 1/n Σipi → 0, np → ∞, np2 → 0, then the total variation distance between X1+...+Xn and a Poisson distribution with expectation np is p(2Πe)-1/2(1 + o(1)).

En este trabajo consideramos evaluaciones de la distancia en variación entre leyes de Poisson, binomial y de sumas variables de Bernoulli independientes.

Publié le : 1985-01-01
DMLE-ID : 3334
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Deheuvels, Paul. A note on Poisson approximation.. Trabajos de Estadística e Investigación Operativa, Tome 36 (1985) pp. 101-111. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/urn:eudml:doc:40745/