Timeline for Estimating a partial sum of weighted binomial coefficients
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| Sep 23, 2021 at 2:27 | comment | added | Maxim Gilula | I needed something a little stronger than that theorem when I worked on the problem I had in mind. The error is relatively large for what I needed. | |
| Sep 23, 2021 at 2:26 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | @MaximGilula There is a large literature on normal approximation of the binomial distribution. Start with the Berry-Esseen Theorem, which gives an explicit bound on the error. | |
| Nov 8, 2018 at 3:56 | comment | added | Maxim Gilula | Do you have an error approximation on this, @BrendanMcKay or @RussellMay? I would love to know. I have a problem in exactly this situation. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 11:39 | comment | added | Brendan McKay | This will only be a good estimate when the upper limit is close to the centre of the normal approximation, i.e., when $\alpha\approx p$. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 10:37 | history | edited | Russell May | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 11, 2012 at 10:31 | history | answered | Russell May | CC BY-SA 3.0 |