Mathematical Statistics with Applications
7th Edition
ISBN: 9781111798789
Author: Dennis O. Wackerly
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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*7.104 Let Yn be a binomial random variable with n trials and with success probability p. Suppose that n tends to infinity and p tends to zero in such a way that np remains fixed at np = λ. Use the result in Theorem 7.5 to prove that the distribution of Yn converges to a Poisson distribution with mean λ.
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