A non-uniform Berry-Esseen bound via Stein's method

Probability Theory and Related Fields

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 236-254

  Chen, Louis H Y ^a   Shao, Qi Man ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentration inequality approach; Non uniform Berry Esseen bound; Normal approximation; Stein's method

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035625610     PISSN: 01788051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008782     Document Type: Article

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