The intersection property for binomial and Poisson distributions
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.
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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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