Stirling’s Approximation for Factorials — Proof and Applications

Stirling’s Approximation for Factorials — Proof and Applications

See how Stirling’s approximation can be derived using Taylor’s approximation and integrals

Data science and factorials

Factorial is one of the ubiquitous concepts in mathematics. It is also an important mathematical concept used in data science. For modeling probability distributions in the Poisson process, factorial is used. The probability mass function of the Poisson distribution has factorial expression in the denominator. We would not be able to find the probability of some …

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