In this article we review two historical approximations to the Poisson and binomial cumulative distribution functions (CDFs); that is, the Wilson—Hilferty and Camp—Paulson approximations. Both of ...

Similar results hold for the joint distribution of several U-statistics (Theorems 7.1 and 7.2), for statistics U' which, in a certain sense, are asymptotically equivalent to U (Theorems 7.3 and 7.4), ...