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An Improvement of Poisson Approximation for Sums of Dependent Bernoulli Random Variables

K. TeerapabolarnDepartment of Mathematics, Burapha University, Chonburi, Thailand and Centre of Excellence in Mathematics, CHE, Bangkok, ThailandCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1758-1777 | Received 19 Apr 2011, Accepted 05 Mar 2012, Published online: 28 Mar 2014

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