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Chapter 8 Poisson approximations - Yale University
www.stat.yale.eduChapter 8 Poisson approximations Page 2 therefore have expected value ‚Dn.‚=n/and variance ‚Dlimn!1n.‚=n/.1 ¡‚=n/.Also, the coin-tossing origins of the Binomial show that ifX has a Bin.m;p/distribution and X0 has Bin.n;p/distribution independent of X, then X CX0has a Bin.n Cm;p/distribution. Putting ‚Dmp and „Dnp one would then suspect that the sum of independent …