Stein’s method and stochastic analysis of rademacher functionals

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 15, Issue , 2010, Pages 1703-1742

  Nourdin, Ivan ^a   Peccati, Giovanni ^b   Reinert, Gesine ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Central Limit Theorems; Discrete Malliavin operators; Normal approximation; Rademacher sequences; Sparse sets; Stein s method; Walsh chaos

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649703762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v15-823     Document Type: Article

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