Sharpening of the upper bound of the absolute constant in the Berry-Esseen inequality

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 549-553

  Shevtsova, I G ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen inequality; Central limit theorem; Convergence rate estimate; Normal approximation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35349018412     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97982591     Document Type: Article

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