Improved Lower Bounds on the Total Variation Distance for the Poisson Approximation
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New lower bounds on the total variation distance between the distribution of a sum of independent Bernoulli random variables and the Poisson random variable (with the same mean) are derived via the Chen-Stein method. The new bounds rely on a non-trivial modification of the analysis by Barbour and Hall (1984) which surprisingly gives a significant improvement. A use of the new lower bounds is addressed.
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IRWIN AND JOAN JACOBS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES Improved Lower Bounds on the Total Variation Distance for the Poisson Approximation
New lower bounds on the total variation distance between the distribution of a sum of independent Bernoulli random variables and the Poisson random variable (with the same mean) are derived via the Chen-Stein method. The new bounds rely on a non-trivial modification of the analysis by Barbour and Hall (1984) which surprisingly gives a significant improvement. A use of the new lower bounds is ad...
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تاریخ انتشار 2013