We present a method to obtain both exact values and sharp estimates for the total variation distance between binomial and Poisson distributions with the same mean λ. We give a simple efficient ...

This paper takes Brenner & Quan (The Statistician, 39, pp. 391-397) to task for their claim that a Bayesian analysis of the parameter of a binomial distribution gives a confidence interval which is ...

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