Abstract
We present some new and explicit error bounds for the approximation of distributions. The approximation error is quantified by the maximal density ratio of the distribution Q to be approximated and its proxy P. This non-symmetric measure is more informative than and implies bounds for the total variation distance.
Explicit approximation problems include, among others, hypergeometric by binomial distributions, binomial by Poisson distributions, and beta by gamma distributions. In many cases, we provide both upper and (matching) lower bounds.
Citation
Lutz Dümbgen. Richard J. Samworth. Jon A. Wellner. "Bounding distributional errors via density ratios." Bernoulli 27 (2) 818 - 852, May 2021. https://doi.org/10.3150/20-BEJ1256
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