Corrected diffusion approximation for random walks conditioned to stay positive
Probability
2026-02-23 v1
Abstract
Let be a random walk with i.i.d. increments which have zero mean and finite variance. For every we define the stopping time and consider the probabilities . We study the quality of the normal approximation for these probabilities and derive a Berry-Esseen-type inequality for . Our Theorem 1 is an extension of the results in our previous paper (arXiv:2412.08502) where we have considered the special case . It is also worth mentioning that Theorem 1 complements the results of Siegmund and Yuh (1982) on the corrected diffusion approximation.
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@article{arxiv.2602.18120,
title = {Corrected diffusion approximation for random walks conditioned to stay positive},
author = {Denis Denisov and Alexander Tarasov and Vitali Wachtel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18120},
year = {2026}
}
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22 pages