@article{ECP1501,
author = {Anna Posfai},
title = {An extension of Mineka's coupling inequality},
journal = {Electron. Commun. Probab.},
fjournal = {Electronic Communications in Probability},
volume = {14},
year = {2009},
keywords = {Mineka coupling; translated compound Poisson approximation; total variation distance; coupon collecting},
abstract = {In this paper we propose a refinement of Mineka's coupling inequality that gives a better upper bound for $d_{TV}\left({\cal L}\left(W\right),{\cal L}\left(W+1\right)\right)$, where $W$ is a sum of $n$ independent integer valued random variables, in the case when $\text{Var} W\gg n$.},
pages = {no. 45, 464-473},
issn = {1083-589X},
doi = {10.1214/ECP.v14-1501},
url = {http://ecp.ejpecp.org/article/view/1501}}