On the Poisson approximation of multinomial probabilities

Ibrahim A. Ahmad

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1985, vol. 3, issue 1, 55-56

Abstract: The degree of approximation of the distance between multinomial and Poisson probabilities has been investigated by Hodges and LeCam (1960) and McDonald (1980). In this note we provide an elementary proof of a bound on the deviation between the multinomial and Poisson probabilities. An extension to the case of randomly stopped experiments is also given.

Keywords: multinomial; probabilities; Poisson; distribution; random; sample; size (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1985
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