On the upper bound for the absolute constant in the berry-esseen inequality

Theory of Probability and its Applications

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 638-658

  Korolev, V Y ^a,b   Shevtsova, I G ^a,b  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Berry Esseen inequality; Central limit theorem; Smoothing inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952982403     PISSN: 0040585X     EISSN: 10957219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/S0040585X97984449     Document Type: Article

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