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Activity Number: 622 - Probability Distribution Theory and Their Applications
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 3, 2017 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract #322598 View Presentation
Title: Skew-Normal Approximation to the Hypergeometric Distribution
Author(s): Jose Sanqui* and Dong Won Jung
Companies: Appalachian State University and Appalachian State University
Keywords: Cumulative Distribution Function ; Central Limit Theorem ; Maximum Absolute Error ; Skewness
Abstract:

We investigate the skew-normal approximation to the hypergeometric distribution and show that the approximation improves on the classical normal approximation.


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