Tusnády's inequality revisited

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2731-2741

  Carter, Andrew ^a   Pollard, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta integral representation of Binomial tails; Equivalent normal deviate; KMT Hungarian construction; Quantile coupling; Ratios of normal tails; Tusn dy's inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 21644478696     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/009053604000000733     Document Type: Article

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