Stein’s method for dependent random variables occurring in statistical mechanics

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 15, Issue , 2010, Pages 962-988

  Eichelsbacher, Peter ^a   Löwe, Matthias ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen bound; Critical temperature; Curie Weiss models; Exchangeable pairs; Ghs inequality; Stein s method

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955457388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v15-777     Document Type: Article

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