In this article we review two historical approximations to the Poisson and binomial cumulative distribution functions (CDFs); that is, the Wilson—Hilferty and Camp—Paulson approximations. Both of ...

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This study extends the Poisson binomial distribution by introducing correlation and dependence between binomial events, enhancing its ability to capture complex event types and improving model ...