Orthogonal decomposition of finite population statistics and its applications to distributional asymptotics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 899-917

  Bloznelis, M ^a   Gotze F ^b  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ANOVA; Asymptotic expansion; Edgeworth expansion; Efron Stein inequality; Finite population; Hoeffding decomposition; Jackknife estimator of variance; Jackknife histogram; Sampling without replacement; Stochastic expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035539858     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1009210694     Document Type: Article

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