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A note on the normal approximation error for randomly weighted self-normalized sums

Probability 2011-09-28 v1

Abstract

Let \bX={Xn}n1\bX=\{X_n\}_{n\geq 1} and \bY={Yn}n1\bY=\{Y_n\}_{n\geq 1} be two independent random sequences. We obtain rates of convergence to the normal law of randomly weighted self-normalized sums ψn(\bX,\bY)=i=1nXiYi/Vn,Vn=Y12+...+Yn2. \psi_n(\bX,\bY)=\sum_{i=1}^nX_iY_i/V_n,\quad V_n=\sqrt{Y_1^2+...+Y_n^2}. These rates are seen to hold for the convergence of a number of important statistics, such as for instance Student's tt-statistic or the empirical correlation coefficient.

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@article{arxiv.1109.5812,
  title  = {A note on the normal approximation error for randomly weighted self-normalized sums},
  author = {Siegfried Hoermann and Yvik Swan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.5812},
  year   = {2011}
}
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