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Stein's Method for Probability Distributions on $\mathbb{S}^1$

Probability 2021-05-28 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a modification to the density approach to Stein's method for intervals for the unit circle S1\mathbb{S}^1 which is motivated by the differing geometry of S1\mathbb{S}^1 to Euclidean space. We provide an upper bound to the Wasserstein metric for circular distributions and exhibit a variety of different bounds between distributions; particularly, between the von-Mises and wrapped normal distributions, and the wrapped normal and wrapped Cauchy distributions.

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@article{arxiv.2105.13199,
  title  = {Stein's Method for Probability Distributions on $\mathbb{S}^1$},
  author = {Alexander Lewis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13199},
  year   = {2021}
}
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