IJPAM: Volume 87, No. 2 (2013)
IMPROVEMENT OF POISSON APPROXIMATION
FOR INDEPENDENT GEOMETRIC TRIALS
FOR INDEPENDENT GEOMETRIC TRIALS
K. Teerapabolarn
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Abstract. We use the Stein-Chen method to improve the bound in [#!KP!#] to be more appropriate for the Poisson approximation to a sum of independently distributed geometric random variables.
Received: March 26, 2013
AMS Subject Classification: 62E17, 60F05, 60G50
Key Words and Phrases: distribution function, geometric random variable, Poisson approximation, Stein-Chen method
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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v87i2.7 How to cite this paper?
Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2013
Volume: 87
Issue: 2