What Is the Difference between Gamma and Gaussian Distributions? ()
Abstract
An inequality describing the difference between Gamma and Gaussian distributions is derived. The asymptotic bound is much better than by existing uniform bound from Berry-Esseen inequality.
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X. Hu, "What Is the Difference between Gamma and Gaussian Distributions?,"
Applied Mathematics, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2013, pp. 285-289. doi:
10.4236/am.2013.42043.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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