%0 Journal Article %A S. B. Mansuri %D 2012 %J International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Sciences %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 71, 2012 %T A Note on Negative Hypergeometric Distribution and Its Approximation %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/7715 %V 71 %X In this paper, at first we explain about negative hypergeometric distribution and its properties. Then we use the w-function and the Stein identity to give a result on the poisson approximation to the negative hypergeometric distribution in terms of the total variation distance between the negative hypergeometric and poisson distributions and its upper bound. %P 1571 - 1573