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We present a straightforward formulation of Stein's method for the semicircular distribution, specifically designed for the analysis of non-commutative random variables. Our approach employs a non-commutative version of Stein's heuristic,…

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Under certain conditions, a symmetric unimodal continuous random variable $\xi$ can be represented as a scale mixture of the standard Normal distribution $Z$, i.e., $\xi = \sqrt{W} Z$, where the mixing distribution $W$ is independent of…

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Available in the literature are properties which characterize the gamma distribution via independence of two appropriately chosen statistics. Well-known is the classical result when one of the statistics is the sample mean and the other one…

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