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Self-normalized Cram\'{e}r type moderate deviations for martingales and applications

Probability 2025-03-03 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

Cram\'er's moderate deviations give a quantitative estimate for the relative error of the normal approximation and provide theoretical justifications for many estimator used in statistics. In this paper, we establish self-normalized Cram\'{e}r type moderate deviations for martingales under some mile conditions. The result extends an earlier work of Fan, Grama, Liu and Shao [Bernoulli, 2019]. Moreover, applications of our result to Student's statistic, stationary martingale difference sequences and branching processes in a random environment are also discussed. In particular, we establish Cram\'{e}r type moderate deviations for Student's tt-statistic for branching processes in a random environment.

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@article{arxiv.2309.05266,
  title  = {Self-normalized Cram\'{e}r type moderate deviations for martingales and applications},
  author = {Xiequan Fan and Qi-Man Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.05266},
  year   = {2025}
}

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24 pages

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