Explicit non-asymptotic bounds for the distance to the first-order Edgeworth expansion

DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2101.05780MaRDI QIDQ96848FDOQ96848

Authors: Alexis Derumigny, Lucas Girard, Yannick Guyonvarch, Alexis Derumigny, Lucas Girard, Yannick Guyonvarch 

Publication date: 14 January 2021

Published in: Sankhyā. Series A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this article, we obtain explicit bounds on the uniform distance between the cumulative distribution function of a standardized sum $S_n$ of $n$ independent centered random variables with moments of order four and its first-order Edgeworth expansion. Those bounds are valid for any sample size with $n^{-1/2}$ rate under moment conditions only and $n^{-1}$ rate under additional regularity constraints on the tail behavior of the characteristic function of $S_n$. In both cases, the bounds are further sharpened if the variables involved in $S_n$ are unskewed. We also derive new Berry-Esseen-type bounds from our results and discuss their links with existing ones. We finally apply our results to illustrate the lack of finite-sample validity of one-sided tests based on the normal approximation of the mean.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.05780

zbMATH Keywords

normal approximationBerry-Esseen boundcentral limit theoremEdgeworth expansionnon-asymptotic tests

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Approximations to statistical distributions (nonasymptotic) (62E17)

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