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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wupost!mont!mont!stephen
  3. From: stephen@mont.cs.missouri.edu (Stephen Montgomery-Smith)
  4. Subject: Re: approx. of binomial dist., help needed
  5. Message-ID: <stephen.718911611@mont>
  6. Organization: University of Missouri
  7. References: <1992Oct7.025857.28031@news2.cis.umn.edu> <1992Oct8.202310.10461@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
  8. Date: 12 Oct 92 17:40:11 GMT
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  11. Littlewood wrote a fairly comprehensive paper about finding approximations
  12. to the tail of the binomial distribution.  I don't recall its exact
  13. reference, but I could probably find out if anyone is interested.
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  15. Stephen
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