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The American Statistician Volume 49, 1995 - Issue 3

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Equating Poisson and Normal Probability Functions to Derive Stirling's Formula

Dennis P. Walsh Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN, 37132, USA

Pages 270-271 | Received 01 May 1994, Published online: 27 Feb 2012

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