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Louis Gordon

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Publications

25

Citations

2.1K

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Active since

1969

Affiliations

University of Southern California(Current)

University of California San Diego

Louis Gordon is an author at University of Southern California specializing in engineering, probability theory, and statistics.

Top concepts

EngineeringStatisticsProbabilityStatistical InferenceEstimation TheoryMathematical ProgrammingCombinatorial OptimizationBusinessQuantitative ManagementData Science

Publications per year

1969–2001

25

Publications

25

Two Moments Suffice for Poisson Approximations: The Chen-Stein Method

Richard Arratia, Larry Goldstein, Louis Gordon · The Annals of Probability · 1989 · 512 citations · Full text

Spectral Theory, Total Variation Distance, Engineering +12

Poisson Approximation and the Chen-Stein Method

Richard Arratia, Larry Goldstein, Louis Gordon · Statistical Science · 1990 · 349 citations · Full text

Numerical Analysis, Engineering, Poisson Distribution +14

The Erdos-Renyi Law in Distribution, for Coin Tossing and Sequence Matching

Richard Arratia, Louis Gordon, Michael S. Waterman · The Annals of Statistics · 1990 · 149 citations · Full text

Engineering, Sequence Matching, String-searching Algorithm +14

Tutorial on large deviations for the binomial distribution

Richard Arratia, Louis Gordon · Bulletin of Mathematical Biology · 1989 · 136 citations

Large Deviations, Engineering, Discrete Probability +3

An Extreme Value Theory for Sequence Matching

Richard Arratia, Louis Gordon, Michael S. Waterman · The Annals of Statistics · 1986 · 117 citations · Full text

Mathematical Programming, Extreme Value Distribution, Sequence Matching +12

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