Central limit theorems for the Wasserstein distance between the empirical and the true distributions

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 1009-1071

  Del Barrio, Eustasio ^a   Giné, Evarist ^a   Matrán, Carlos ^a  

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Author keywords

Convergence of moments; Distributional limit theorems; Empirical processes; Ornstein Uhlenbeck process; Wasserstein distance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033468528     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022677394     Document Type: Article

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