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Normal approximation for hierarchical structures
Given F:[a,b]^k\to [a,b] and a nonconstant X_0 with P(X_0\in [a,b])=1, define
the hierarchical sequence of random variables {X_n}_{n\ge 0} by
X_{n+1}=F(X_{n,1},...,X_{n,k}), where X_{n,i} are i.i.d. as X_n. Such sequences
arise from hierarchical structures which have been extensively studied in the
physics literature to model, for example, the conductivity of a random medium.
Under an averaging and smoothness condition on nontrivial F, an upper bound of
the form C\gamma^n for 0<\gamma<1 is obtained on the Wasserstein distance
between the standardized distribution of X_n and the normal. The results apply,
for instance, to random resistor networks and, introducing the notion of strict
averaging, to hierarchical sequences generated by certain compositions. As an
illustration, upper bounds on the rate of convergence to the normal are derived
for the hierarchical sequence generated by the weighted diamond lattice which
is shown to exhibit a full range of convergence rate behavior.Comment: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/105051604000000440 in the
Annals of Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute
of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Bounds on the constant in the mean central limit theorem
Let be independent with zero means, finite variances
and finite absolute third moments. Let be
the distribution function of , where
, and that of the standard normal. The
-distance between and then satisfies In particular, when
are identically distributed with variance , we have
\Vert F_n-\Phi\Vert_1\le\frac{E|X_1|^3}{\sigma^3\sqrt{n}}\qquad for all
$n\in\mathbb{N}$, corresponding to an -Berry--Esseen constant of 1.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOP527 the Annals of
Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
A Berry-Esseen bound with applications to vertex degree counts in the Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi random graph
Applying Stein's method, an inductive technique and size bias coupling yields
a Berry-Esseen theorem for normal approximation without the usual restriction
that the coupling be bounded. The theorem is applied to counting the number of
vertices in the Erdos-Renyi random graph of a given degree.Comment: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AAP848 the Annals of
Applied Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aap/) by the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org
Zero biasing and growth processes
The tools of zero biasing are adapted to yield a general result suitable for
analyzing the behavior of certain growth processes. The main theorem is applied
to prove central limit theorems, with explicit error terms in the L^1 metric,
for certain statistics of the Jack measure on partitions and for the number of
balls drawn in a Polya-Eggenberger urn process.Comment: 21 pages. Error in one term of the bound of the main theorem has been
corrected, resulting in some changes to the bound for urn proces
A Berry-Esseen bound for the uniform multinomial occupancy model
The inductive size bias coupling technique and Stein's method yield a
Berry-Esseen theorem for the number of urns having occupancy when
balls are uniformly distributed over urns. In particular, there exists a
constant depending only on such that \sup_{z \in
\mathbb{R}}|P(W_{n,m} \le z) -P(Z \le z)| \le C \left(
\frac{1+(\frac{n}{m})^3}{\sigma_{n,m}} \right) \quad \mbox{for all $n \ge d$
and $m \ge 2$,} where and are the standardized
count and variance, respectively, of the number of urns with balls, and
is a standard normal random variable. Asymptotically, the bound is optimal up
to constants if and tend to infinity together in a way such that
stays bounded.Comment: Typo corrected in abstrac
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