Normal approximation under local dependence. (Q1879812)

This paper is concerned with normal approximation under local dependence by using Stein's method. Local dependence roughly means that certain subsets of the random variables are independent of those outside their respective ``neighborhoods''. No structure on the index set is assumed. Both uniform and nonuniform error bounds of the Berry-Esseen type are obtained and shown to be more general or sharper than many existing results in the literature.