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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The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique Let Xi be the number of outcomes in class Ci,i=0,... ,k, during n independent possibly non-identical trials. If class C0 has ...

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