Reversing the Berry-Esseen inequality
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Abstract:
We derive a lower bound to the rate of convergence in the central limit theorem. Our result is expressed in terms similar to those of the Berry-Esséen inequality, with the distance between two distributions on one side of the inequality and an easily calculated function of the summands on the other, related by a universal constant. The proof is based on Stein’s method.References
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- © Copyright 1984 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 90 (1984), 107-110
- MSC: Primary 60F05; Secondary 60E15, 60G50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-1984-0722426-X
- MathSciNet review: 722426