| Article ID: | iaor1989314 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 717 |
| End Page Number: | 724 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1988 |
| Journal: | Journal of Applied Probability |
| Authors: | Holst L., Kennedy J.E., Quine M.P. |
Bounds on the rate of convergence measured by the variation distance are obtained for the number of large spacings and for two occupancy problems connected with multinomial and Pólya sampling. The bounds are derived by imbedding techniques together with the elementary coupling inequality.