Volume 34 • Number 2 • 2011   • On the Poisson Approximation to the Negative Hypergeometric Distribution K. Teerapabolarn Abstract. In this paper, the Stein-Chen method and the \(w\)-function associated with the negative hypergeometric random variable are used to give a result of the Poisson approximation to the negative hypergeometric distribution in terms of the total variation distance. Some numerical examples are presented to illustrate the result obtained 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 60F05. Full text: PDF