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An improvement of a result of Le Cam on the rate of approximation of distributions of sums of independent random variables by accompanying compound Poisson laws is proved. Bibliography: 14 titles.
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Published in Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI, Vol. 320, 2004, pp. 44–53.
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Götze, F., Zaitsev, A.Y. Approximation of convolutions by accompanying laws without centering. J Math Sci 137, 4510–4515 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10958-006-0243-2
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