A new simulation approach to estimating expected values of functions of Bernoulli random variables under certain types of dependencies

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon M. Ross
Keyword(s):  
Random Variables ◽  
Simulation Approach ◽  
Bernoulli Random Variables ◽  
Expected Values

On improvements of the order of approximation in the Poisson limit theorem

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (01) ◽  
pp. 146-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Borovkov ◽  
D. Pfeifer
Keyword(s):  
Limit Theorem ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Poisson Approximation ◽  
Order Of Approximation ◽  
Operator Semigroups ◽  
Bernoulli Random Variables ◽  
Usual Rate ◽  
Poisson Limit ◽  
Poisson Measures ◽  
Special Case

In this paper we consider improvements in the rate of approximation for the distribution of sums of independent Bernoulli random variables via convolutions of Poisson measures with signed measures of specific type. As a special case, the distribution of the number of records in an i.i.d. sequence of length n is investigated. For this particular example, it is shown that the usual rate of Poisson approximation of O(1/log n) can be lowered to O(1/n 2). The general case is discussed in terms of operator semigroups.

scholarly journals Distribution of Geometrically Weighted Sum of Bernoulli Random Variables

2011 ◽  
Vol 02 (11) ◽  
pp. 1382-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepesh Bhati ◽  
Phazamile Kgosi ◽  
Ranganath Narayanacharya Rattihalli
Keyword(s):  
Random Variables ◽  
Weighted Sum ◽  
Bernoulli Random Variables

Plate and line segment processes

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 494-501 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. A. Fava ◽  
L. A. Santaló
Keyword(s):  
Line Segment ◽  
Integral Geometry ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Random Processes ◽  
Line Segments ◽  
Expected Values

Random processes of convex plates and line segments imbedded in R 3 are considered in this paper, and the expected values of certain random variables associated with such processes are computed under a mean stationarity assumption, by resorting to some general formulas of integral geometry.

Comparing sums of exchangeable Bernoulli random variables

1996 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 285-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Lefèvre ◽  
Sergey Utev
Keyword(s):  
Iterative Procedure ◽  
First Passage Time ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Passage Time ◽  
Partial Sums ◽  
First Passage ◽  
Sampling Schemes ◽  
Bernoulli Random Variables ◽  
Discrete Random Variables ◽  
Comparison Results

The paper is first concerned with a comparison of the partial sums associated with two sequences of n exchangeable Bernoulli random variables. It then considers a situation where such partial sums are obtained through an iterative procedure of branching type stopped at the first-passage time in a linearly decreasing upper barrier. These comparison results are illustrated with applications to certain urn models, sampling schemes and epidemic processes. A key tool is a non-standard hierarchical class of stochastic orderings between discrete random variables valued in {0, 1,· ··, n}.

scholarly journals A refinement of normal approximation to Poisson binomial

2005 ◽  
Vol 2005 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Neammanee
Keyword(s):  
Normal Distribution ◽  
Normal Approximation ◽  
Random Variables ◽  
Random Variable ◽  
Standard Normal Distribution ◽  
Bernoulli Random Variables ◽  
Binomial Random Variable ◽  
Standard Normal ◽  
Correction Terms ◽  
Better Than

LetX1,X2,…,Xnbe independent Bernoulli random variables withP(Xj=1)=1−P(Xj=0)=pjand letSn:=X1+X2+⋯+Xn.Snis called a Poisson binomial random variable and it is well known that the distribution of a Poisson binomial random variable can be approximated by the standard normal distribution. In this paper, we use Taylor's formula to improve the approximation by adding some correction terms. Our result is better than before and is of order1/nin the casep1=p2=⋯=pn.

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