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Friedman's chi-square test is a non-parametric statistical test for $r\geq2$ treatments across $n\ge1$ trials to assess the null hypothesis that there is no treatment effect. We use Stein's method with an exchangeable pair coupling to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-01 Robert E. Gaunt , Gesine Reinert

We establish general upper bounds on the Kolmogorov distance between two probability distributions in terms of the distance between these distributions as measured with respect to the Wasserstein or smooth Wasserstein metrics. These bounds…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-02 Robert E. Gaunt , Siqi Li

We develop techniques for determining an explicit Berry-Esseen bound in the Kolmogorov distance for the normal approximation of a ratio of Gaussian functionals. We provide an upper bound in terms of the third and fourth cumulants, using…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-07 Khalifa Es-Sebaiy , Fares Alazemi

The Kolmogorov distances between a symmetric hypergeometric law with standard deviation $\sigma$ and its usual normal approximations are computed and shown to be less than $1/(\sqrt{8\pi}\,\sigma)$, with the order $1/\sigma$ and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-05-01 Lutz Mattner , Jona Schulz

In this article we propose a general framework for normal approximation using Stein's method. We introduce the new concept of Stein couplings and we show that it lies at the heart of popular approaches such as the local approach,…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-10-27 Louis H. Y. Chen , Adrian Röllin

We derive normal approximation bounds for generalized $U$-statistics of the form \begin{equation*} S_{n,k}(f):=\sum_{ 1 \leq \beta (1),\dots,\beta (k) \leq n \atop \beta (i)\ne\beta (j), \ 1\leq i\ne j \leq k} f\big(X_{\beta…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Qingwei Liu , Nicolas Privault

The classical Berry-Esseen error bound, for the normal approximation to the law of a sum of independent and identically distributed random variables, is here improved by replacing the standardised third absolute moment by a weak norm…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Lutz Mattner

We obtain non-symmetric upper and lower bounds on the rate of convergence of general monotone approximation/numerical schemes for parabolic Hamilton Jacobi Bellman Equations by introducing a new notion of consistency. We apply our general…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-11-11 Guy Barles , Espen R. Jakobsen

We provide a Lyapunov type bound in the multivariate central limit theorem for sums of independent, but not necessarily identically distributed random vectors. The error in the normal approximation is estimated for certain classes of sets,…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-07-24 Martin Raič

Motivated by its appearance as a limiting distribution for random and non-random sums of independent random variables, in this paper we develop Stein's method for approximation by the asymmetric Laplace distribution. Our results generalise…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Fraser Daly , Robert E. Gaunt , Heather L. Sutcliffe

We build on the formalism developed in [arXiv:1906.08372v1] to propose new representations of solutions to Stein equations. We provide new uniform and non uniform bounds on these solutions (a.k.a.\ Stein factors). We use these…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-14 Marie Ernst , Yvik Swan

We develop a variant of Stein's method of comparison of generators to bound the Kolmogorov, total variation, and Wasserstein-1 distances between distributions on the real line. Our discrepancy is expressed in terms of the ratio of reverse…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Paul Mansanarez , Guillaume Poly , Yvik Swan

We consider the convergence of the empirical spectral measures of random $N \times N$ unitary matrices. We give upper and lower bounds showing that the Kolmogorov distance between the spectral measure and the uniform measure on the unit…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-11-01 Elizabeth S. Meckes , Mark W. Meckes

In this paper we establish some explicit and sharp estimates of the spectral gap and the log-Sobolev constant for mean field particles system, uniform in the number of particles, when the confinement potential have many local minimums. Our…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Arnaud Guillin , Wei Liu , Liming Wu , Chaoen Zhang

Uniform bounds on sketched inner products of vectors or matrices underpin several important computational and statistical results in machine learning and randomized algorithms, including the Johnson-Lindenstrauss (J-L) lemma, the Restricted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Rohan Deb , Qiaobo Li , Mayank Shrivastava , Arindam Banerjee

We use Stein's method to prove a generalization of the Lindeberg-Feller CLT providing an upper and a lower bound for the superior limit of the Kolmogorov distance between a normally distributed random variable and the rowwise sums of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2011-12-30 Ben Berckmoes , Bob Lowen , Jan Van Casteren

We consider the configuration model and the uniform simple graph with given degree sequence $\boldsymbol{d}=\left(d_i\right)_{i=1}^n$. We derive quantitative bounds for the errors in (i) joint normal-Poisson approximation to the numbers of…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Ryo Imai

Under the assumption that the distribution of a nonnegative random variable $X$ admits a bounded coupling with its size biased version, we prove simple and strong concentration bounds. In particular the upper tail probability is shown to…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-07-15 Richard Arratia , Peter Baxendale

We obtain explicit error bounds for the $d$-dimensional normal approximation on hyperrectangles for a random vector that has a Stein kernel, or admits an exchangeable pair coupling, or is a non-linear statistic of independent random…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-09-08 Xiao Fang , Yuta Koike

Generalized gamma distributions arise as limits in many settings involving random graphs, walks, trees, and branching processes. Pek\"oz, R\"ollin, and Ross (2016, arXiv:1309.4183 [math.PR]) exploited characterizing distributional fixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-08-08 Tobias Johnson , Erol Peköz