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Applying Stein's method, an inductive technique and size bias coupling yields a Berry-Esseen theorem for normal approximation without the usual restriction that the coupling be bounded. The theorem is applied to counting the number of…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-02-26 Larry Goldstein

For a series of univariate or multivariate complex multiple Wiener-It\^o integrals, we appreciably improve the previously known contractions condition of complex Fourth Moment Theorem (FMT) and present a fourth moment type Berry-Ess\'een…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Huiping Chen , Yong Chen , Yong Liu

Let $T$ be a general sampling statistic that can be written as a linear statistic plus an error term. Uniform and non-uniform Berry--Esseen type bounds for $T$ are obtained. The bounds are the best possible for many known statistics.…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Louis H. Y. Chen , Qi-Man Shao

There has been a resurgence of interest in incomplete U-statistics that only sum over a subset of kernel evaluations, due to their computational efficiency and asymptotic normality which can be leveraged to quantify the uncertainty of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Dennis Leung

We find two-sides estimates for the best uniform approximations of classes of convolutions of $2\pi$-periodic functions from unit ball of the space $L_p, 1 \le p <\infty,$ with fixed kernels, modules of Fourier coefficients of which satisfy…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2020-08-05 A. S. Serdyuk , I. V. Sokolenko

We introduce a new family of distributions to approximate $\mathbb {P}(W\in A)$ for $A\subset\{...,-2,-1,0,1,2,...\}$ and $W$ a sum of independent integer-valued random variables $\xi_1$, $\xi_2$, $...,$ $\xi_n$ with finite second moments,…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Larry Goldstein , Aihua Xia

We study the long-time behavior of fully discretized semilinear SPDEs with additive space-time white noise, which admit a unique invariant probability measure $\mu$. We show that the average of regular enough test functions with respect to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2013-12-02 Charles-Edouard Bréhier , Marie Kopec

Bernstein polynomials provide a constructive proof for the Weierstrass approximation theorem, which states that every continuous function on a closed bounded interval can be uniformly approximated by polynomials with arbitrary accuracy.…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-24 Tiangang Cui , Friedrich Pillichshammer

This paper establishes a non-uniform Berry--Esseen bound for non-normal approximation using Stein's method. The main theorem generalizes the result of the authors in [Comptes Rendus Mathematique, 2024] to the context of non-normal…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Lê Vǎn Thành , Nguyen Ngoc Tu

In this paper, we refine the Berry-Esseen bounds for the multivariate normal approximation of Polyak-Ruppert averaged iterates arising from the linear stochastic approximation (LSA) algorithm with decreasing step size. We consider the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-15 Bogdan Butyrin , Eric Moulines , Alexey Naumov , Sergey Samsonov , Qi-Man Shao , Zhuo-Song Zhang

Non-asymptotic bounds for Gaussian and bootstrap approximation have recently attracted significant interest in high-dimensional statistics. This paper studies Berry-Esseen bounds for such approximations with respect to the multivariate…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Miles E. Lopes

We prove a sharp general inequality estimating the distance of two probability measures on a compact Lie group in the Wasserstein metric in terms of their Fourier transforms. We use a generalized form of the Wasserstein metric, related by…

Classical Analysis and ODEs · Mathematics 2021-03-12 Bence Borda

In this paper, we develop approximation error estimates as well as corresponding inverse inequalities for B-splines of maximum smoothness, where both the function to be approximated and the approximation error are measured in standard…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Stefan Takacs , Thomas Takacs

In this paper, we establish optimal Berry--Esseen bounds for the generalized $U$-statistics. The proof is based on a new Berry--Esseen theorem for exchangeable pair approach by Stein's method under a general linearity condition setting. As…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-09 Zhuo-Song Zhang

A result of Chebyshev (1864) and Hoeffding1956}, on bounding an expectation of a given function with respect to a Bernoulli convolution (also called Poisson binomial law, or law of the number of successes in independent trials) with any…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-14 Lutz Mattner

We analyze the quality of the gaussian approximation to linear combinations of n independent, identically-distributed random variables with finite fourth moments. It turns out that there exist universal, simple linear combinations that…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-10-23 Bo'az Klartag , Sasha Sodin

Given a weakly dependent stationary process, we describe the transition between a Berry-Esseen bound and a second order Edgeworth expansion in terms of the Berry-Esseen characteristic. This characteristic is sharp: We show that Edgeworth…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-12-02 Moritz Jirak , Wei Biao Wu , Ou Zhao

We adapt Stein's method to obtain Berry--Esseen type error bounds in the multivariate central limit theorem for non-stationary processes generated by time-dependent compositions of uniformly expanding dynamical systems. In a particular case…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Juho Leppänen

A Berry--Ess\'{e}en theorem for linear combinations of iterates of an inner function is obtained. Our proof, which is based an elementary transfer argument and classical results in martingale theory, also leads to a simple proof of Nicolau…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-04-20 Yukun Chen , Xiangdi Fu , Zhaofeng Lin , Yanqi Qiu

The well-known von Bahr--Esseen bound on the absolute $p$th moments of martingales with $p\in(1,2]$ is extended to a large class of moment functions, and now with a best possible constant factor (which depends on the moment function). This…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-01-17 Iosif Pinelis