Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Modified empirical CLT’s under only pre-Gaussian conditions

Shahar Mendelson, Joel Zinn

Source: Evarist Giné, Vladimir Koltchinskii, Wenbo Li, Joel Zinn, eds., High Dimensional Probability: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (Beachwood, Ohio, USA: Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2006), 173-184.

Abstract

We show that a modified Empirical process converges to the limiting Gaussian process whenever the limit is continuous. The modification depends on the properties of the limit via Talagrand's characterization of the continuity of Gaussian processes.

Primary Subjects: 60F05
Secondary Subjects: 60F17
Keywords: central limit theorems; empirical processes

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Digital Object Identifier: doi:10.1214/074921706000000833

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Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series

Institute of Mathematical Statistics Lecture Notes - Monograph Series