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David R. McDonald, On the Poisson Approximation to the Multinomial Distribution, The Canadian Journal of Statistics / La Revue Canadienne de Statistique, Vol. 8, No. 1 (1980), pp. 115-118 ...
Goodness-of-fit tests based on the Cramér-von Mises statistics are given for the Poisson distribution. Power comparisons show that these statistics, particularly A2, give good overall tests of fit.