The variance of the discrepancy distribution of rounding procedures, and sums of uniform random variables

DOI10.1007/s00184-017-0609-0zbMath1360.62057OpenAlexW2575959347MaRDI QIDQ523270

Lothar Heinrich, Vitali Wachtel, Friedrich Pukelsheim

Publication date: 20 April 2017

Published in: Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:384-opus4-37675

zbMATH Keywords

Euler-Maclaurin formulaEuler-Frobenius polynomialFourier-analytic approachinvariance principle for rounding residualsrounding residual

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Exact distribution theory in statistics (62E15) Characteristic functions; other transforms (60E10) Euler-Maclaurin formula in numerical analysis (65B15)

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