Approximation Methods for the Bivariate Compound Truncated Poisson Gamma Distribution

Abstract

In certain situations probability computations are required for some complex distributions; like a compound distribution. This can leads to some comptational complexities. In such situations, the problem can be simplified by using some approximation techniques like the “saddle-point” approximation. In this paper, we have first proposed a compound bivariate distribution; namly the bivariate compound truncated Poisson-Gamma distribution; by compounding the zero truncated Poisson distribution with independent Gamma variates. The bivariate saddle-point approximation for the distribution function of the proposed distribution is obtained. An illustrative example for the approximate computation is given. An extensive simulatin study has been conducted to see the performance of the proposed saddle-point approximation for the distribution function of the bivariate compound truncated Poisson-Gamma distribution. It is found that the proposed saddle-point approximation is reasonably good to approximate the distribution function of the bivariate compound truncated Poisson-Gamma distribution.