IJPAM: Volume 83, No. 4 (2013)
BINOMIAL APPROXIMATION TO
THE GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
THE GENERALIZED HYPERGEOMETRIC DISTRIBUTION
K. Teerapabolarn
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Science
Burapha University
Chonburi, 20131, THAILAND
Abstract. In this paper, we use Stein's method and the w-function associated with the generalized hypergeometric random variable to give a bound for the total variation distance between the binomial and generalized hypergeometric distributions.
Received: November 5, 2012
AMS Subject Classification: 62E17, 60F05
Key Words and Phrases: binomial approximation, generalized hypergeometric distribution, total variation distance, Stein's method
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DOI: 10.12732/ijpam.v83i4.4 How to cite this paper?
Source: International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics
ISSN printed version: 1311-8080
ISSN on-line version: 1314-3395
Year: 2013
Volume: 83
Issue: 4
