The Berry-Esseen bound for student's statistic

Annals of Probability

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 491-503

  Bentkus, V ^a   Gotze F ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen bound; Central limit theorem; Convergence rate; Self normalized sums; Student's statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038877700     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1042644728     Document Type: Article

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