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January, 1991 A Compound Poisson Convergence Theorem
Y. H. Wang
Ann. Probab. 19(1): 452-455 (January, 1991). DOI: 10.1214/aop/1176990555

Abstract

In 1971, Simons and Johnson showed that the classical theorem of binomial to Poisson convergence is actually stronger than in the usual sense. Their result was proved valid also for the distributions of sums of independent, but not necessarily identically distributed, Bernoulli random variables by Chen in 1974. Here we show that their result is indeed true for a much larger class of random variables. The limiting distribution is generalized to a compound Poisson distribution.

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Y. H. Wang. "A Compound Poisson Convergence Theorem." Ann. Probab. 19 (1) 452 - 455, January, 1991. https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1176990555

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Published: January, 1991
First available in Project Euclid: 19 April 2007

zbMATH: 0745.60019
MathSciNet: MR1085347
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aop/1176990555

Subjects:
Primary: 60F15
Secondary: 60F05

Keywords: binomial , Compound Poisson , limiting distributions , modes of convergence , Poisson , Sum of random variables

Rights: Copyright © 1991 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.19 • No. 1 • January, 1991
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