Approximation for the probability in the trails of the binomial distribution

  • Authors:
  • Ian F. Blake;H. Darabian

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada;Paramax Ltd., Montreal, Canada

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Upper and lower bounds for the probability in the tails of a binomial distribution are investigated. New bounds are obtained which are computationally simple and, in the case of the lower bound, significantly better than previously known bounds.