Abstract
We provide a probabilistic proof of various Stein's factors for Poisson approximation in terms of the Wasserstein distance.
Citation
A.D. Barbour. Aihua Xia. "On Stein's factors for Poisson approximation in Wasserstein distance." Bernoulli 12 (6) 943 - 954, dec 2006. https://doi.org/10.3150/bj/1165269145
Information
Published: dec 2006
First available in Project Euclid: 4 December 2006
zbMATH: 1328.62076
MathSciNet: MR2274850
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3150/bj/1165269145
Keywords:
Poisson approximation
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Stein's factors
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Stein's method
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Wasserstein distance
Rights: Copyright © 2006 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability