Normal approximation for random sums

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 693-728

  Barbour, A D ^a   Xia, Aihua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen bound; Local dependence; Point process; Random field; Stein's method; Two dimensional maximum

Indexed keywords

BERRY-ESSEEN BOUND; LOCAL DEPENDENCE; POINT PROCESS; RANDOM FIELD; STEIN'S METHOD; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MAXIMUM;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES;

APPROXIMATION THEORY;

EID: 33749543903     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1158684998     Document Type: Article

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