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From Stein identities to moderate deviations

Probability 2013-02-06 v4

Abstract

Stein's method is applied to obtain a general Cramer-type moderate deviation result for dependent random variables whose dependence is defined in terms of a Stein identity. A corollary for zero-bias coupling is deduced. The result is also applied to a combinatorial central limit theorem, a general system of binary codes, the anti-voter model on a complete graph, and the Curie-Weiss model. A general moderate deviation result for independent random variables is also proved.

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@article{arxiv.0911.5373,
  title  = {From Stein identities to moderate deviations},
  author = {Louis H. Y. Chen and Xiao Fang and Qi-Man Shao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.5373},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/12-AOP746 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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