International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 2003 (2003), Issue 48, Pages 3041-3046
doi:10.1155/S0161171203212229

A nonuniform bound for the approximation of Poisson binomial by Poisson distribution

K. Neammanee

Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

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.