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Bounds in $L^1$ Wasserstein distance on the normal approximation of general M-estimators

Statistics Theory 2021-11-19 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We derive quantitative bounds on the rate of convergence in L1L^1 Wasserstein distance of general M-estimators, with an almost sharp (up to a logarithmic term) behavior in the number of observations. We focus on situations where the estimator does not have an explicit expression as a function of the data. The general method may be applied even in situations where the observations are not independent. Our main application is a rate of convergence for cross validation estimation of covariance parameters of Gaussian processes.

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@article{arxiv.2111.09721,
  title  = {Bounds in $L^1$ Wasserstein distance on the normal approximation of general M-estimators},
  author = {François Bachoc and Max Fathi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.09721},
  year   = {2021}
}