http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/31/normal-approximation-errors-for-binomial-and-poisson-distributions/ The blog of John D. Cook Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:42:11 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/31/normal-approximation-errors-for-binomial-and-poisson-distributions/comment-page-1/#comment-87662 Generating Poisson random values — The Endeavour Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:48:30 +0000 http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/31/normal-approximation-errors-for-binomial-and-poisson-distributions/#comment-87662 [...] the quality of the normal approximation improves. (Actually, it uses a logistic approximation to a normal approximation!) Theoretically it could be caught in an infinite loop, as with all accept-reject methods. However, [...] [...] the quality of the normal approximation improves. (Actually, it uses a logistic approximation to a normal approximation!) Theoretically it could be caught in an infinite loop, as with all accept-reject methods. However, [...]

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