Probability Approximations and Beyond

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barbour, Andrew (Editor), Chan, Hock Peng (Editor), Siegmund, David (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Statistics, 205
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Probabilities.; Statistics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

In June 2010, a conference, Probability Approximations and Beyond, was held at the National University of Singapore (NUS), in honor of pioneering mathematician Louis Chen. Louis is perhaps best known for his elegant Poisson approximation method, developed from Stein’s original approach to normal app...