A simple wide range approximation of symmetric binomial distributions

2016/12/04 by Tamás Szabados, Szabados, Tamás · 1 citation
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · Engineering · #Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design #Statistical Distribution Estimation and Applications #Control Systems and Identification

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1612.01112

Abstract

The paper gives a wide range, uniform, local approximation of symmetric binomial distribution. The result clearly shows how one has to modify the the classical de Moivre--Laplace normal approximation in order to give an estimate at the tail as well to minimize the relative error.

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