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Estimating Stein’s constants for compound Poisson approximation. (English) Zbl 0959.62014

Stein’s method for compound Poisson approximation was introduced by A.D. Barbour, L.H.Y. Chen and W.-L. Loh [Ann. Probab. 20, No. 4, 1843-1866 (1992; Zbl 0765.60015)]. One difficulty in applying the method is that the bounds on the solutions of the Stein equation are by no means as good as for the Poisson approximation. Here, it is shown that for the Kolmogorov metric and under a condition on the parameters of the approximating compound Poisson distribution, bounds comparable with those obtained for the Poisson distribution can be recovered.

MSC:

62E17 Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic)
60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems

Citations:

Zbl 0765.60015
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