Bounds for the Concentration of Asymptotically Normal Statistics

Acta Applicandae Mathematicae

Volumn 58, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 11-59

  Alberink, I B ^a   Bentkus, V ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

(two sample) Student's statistic; Concentration function; Linear regression; Non i.i.d. Sampling; Nonsymmetric and symmetric statistics; U statistics; Wilcoxon's rank sum test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012102168     PISSN: 01678019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1006388308961     Document Type: Article

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