On compound Poisson approximation for su
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P. Vellaisamy; B. Chaudhuri
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Article
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1999
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Elsevier Science
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English
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An upper bound for the total variation distance between the distribution of the sum of a sequence of r.v.'s and that of a compound Poisson is derived. Its applications to a general independent sequence and Markov-binomial sequence are demonstrated. (~