The intersection property for binomial and Poisson distributions
Let be a binomially distributed or Poisson-distributed random variable, let be its distribution, and let be its -transform, defined by assigning the signed square root of twice the divergence from according as the value is below or above the mean. Let be a standard Gaussian. The intersection property. The quantile transform between and is a step function, and the identity function intersects each step, namely
for every integer . This conjecture asserts a precise interlacing between the discrete distribution and the Gaussian distribution after the -transform; the source presents it as supported by quantile plots, and no resolution is supplied.
References
Primary source
Peter Harremoës and Gábor Tusnády, “Information Divergence is more chi squared distributed than the chi squared statistics”, arXiv:1202.1125 (2012).
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