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Barbour, A D; Chen, L; Choi, K (1995). Poisson approximation for unbounded functions. I. Independent summands. Statistica Sinica, 5(2):749-766.

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## Abstract

Let , be independent random variables with such that as . Let and let be a Poisson random variable with mean . We obtain an absolute constant bound on , and using this, prove two Poisson approximation theorems for with unbounded and unrestricted. One of the theorems is then applied to obtain a large deviation result concerning for a general class of functions and again with unrestricted. The theorem is also applied to obtain an asymptotic result concerning ^_h((r-)/)|P(W_n=r)-P(Z=r)| for large

Item Type: Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Institute of Mathematics 510 Mathematics Poisson approximation, unbounded functions, large deviations, asymptotics, Stein's method English 1995 09 Apr 2010 08:38 28 Nov 2013 01:22 Academia Sinica, Institute of Statistical Science 1017-0405 http://www3.stat.sinica.edu.tw/statistica/j5n2/j5n223/j5n223.htm Web of Science®. Times Cited: 11Google Scholar™