Goodness-of-fit criteria for the Adams and Jefferson rounding methods and their limiting laws

DOI10.1007/S00184-006-0044-0MaRDI QIDQ851233zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors U. Schwingenschlögl, Lothar Heinrich

Publication date 17 November 2006

Published in Metrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-006-0044-0

zbMATH Keywords

appointment methodconvergence in distributionGaussian limit lawgoodness-of-fit criteriaq-stationary multiplier methodrounding error analysisSainte-Laguë divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Roundoff error (65G50)

Review text

Let \(W = (w_1, \dots, w_c)\) be some arbitrary probability vector for a fixed number of categories \(c\). The arbitrariness is modelled by assuming \(W\) to be random and, moreover, to follow a continuous distribution on the probability simplex \[ S_c = \{(w_1, \dots, w_c) \in [0, 1]^c : w_1 + \dots + w_c = 1\}. \] Rounding methods are used to round the continuous weights \(W_i\) to rational proportions of the form \(N_i/n\) for some prescribed integer accuracy \(n\). Implementing the classical methods of Adams and Jefferson, the authors investigate goodness-of-fit criteria for this rounding process. Assuming that the given probabilities are uniformly distributed, the limiting laws of the criteria are derived, first when the rounding accuracy increases, and then when the number of categories grows large.

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