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Characterizing the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem. II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Peter Hall
Peter Hall
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Australian National University
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Abstract

We obtain upper and lower bounds of the same order of magnitude for the error between the distribution of a sum of independent and identically distributed random variables, and a normal approximation by a portion of a Chebychev-Cramér series. Our results are sufficiently general to contain the familiar characterizations by Ibragimov(4), Heyde and Leslie (3) and Lifshits(5), and complement some of those obtained earlier by the author (2).

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 89 , Issue 3 , May 1981 , pp. 511 - 523
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1981

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