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... ) are well approximated by the corresponding functionals of the independent process, which are often much easier to analyze.
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... ~ Zn I T = n) , but the approximating independent random variables {Zi} are no longer Poisson, but rather negative binomial with parameters mi and xi: P(Zi =k)
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  • total variation
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