Monotonicity properties of the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution

08/03/2020

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by   Iosif Pinelis, et al.

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Certain monotonicity properties of the Poisson approximation to the binomial distribution are established. As a natural application of these results, exact (rather than approximate) tests of hypotheses on an unknown value of the parameter p of the binomial distribution are presented.