Timeline for Normal approximation to Poisson: With Continuity Correction the Approximation Seems Worse
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| Aug 6, 2018 at 6:39 | comment | added | BruceET | Roughly speaking, the larger $\lambda$ is, the better. (The skewness of a Poisson distribution is $1/\sqrt{\lambda},$ and the symmetrical normal distribution has skewness $0.$) | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 3:58 | comment | added | VKV | In general, is there any way to tell how many decimal places the estimate is good to? | |
| Aug 6, 2018 at 3:53 | vote | accept | VKV | ||
| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:43 | history | edited | BruceET | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 4, 2018 at 22:37 | history | answered | BruceET | CC BY-SA 4.0 |