Central limit theorems for the Wasserstein distance between the empirical and the true distributions

DOI10.1214/aop/1022677394zbMath0958.60012OpenAlexW2083454075MaRDI QIDQ1807206

Carlos Matrán, Eustasio del Barrio, Evarist Giné M.

Publication date: 9 November 1999

Published in: The Annals of Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aop/1022677394

zbMATH Keywords

convergence rates central limit theorems Wasserstein distance emprirical distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Order statistics; empirical distribution functions (62G30) Functional limit theorems; invariance principles (60F17)

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