scholarly journals Rates of convergence for U-Statistics with varying kernels

1980 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.C. Weber

Let Un be a U-statistic whose kernel depends on the size n of the sample under consideration. It is shown that when Un is suitably normalised its distribution function differs in Lp norm from the distribution function of a standard normal variable by a term of O(n-½).

1978 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hall

AbstractLet Xnj, 1 ≤ j ≤ kn, be independent, asymptotically negligible random variables for each n ≥ 1. In certain cases there exists a duality between the behaviour of ΣjXnj and . We extend one of the known forms of this duality, and show that, under mild conditions on the truncated moments of the Xnj, the convergence of to 1 in the mean of order p (p ≥ 1) is equivalent to the convergence of ΣjXnj to the standard normal law, together with the convergence of its 2pth absolute moment to that of a standard normal variable. A similar result holds in the case of convergence to a Poisson law.


1966 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 509-514
Author(s):  
W.R. McGillivray ◽  
C.L. Kaller

If Fn is the distribution function of a distribution n with moments up to order n equal to those of the standard normal distribution, then from Kendall and Stuart [1, p.87],


1983 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 54-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Holger Rootzén

Let {ξ; t = 1, 2, …} be a stationary normal sequence with zero means, unit variances, and covariances let be independent and standard normal, and write . In this paper we find bounds on which are roughly of the order where ρ is the maximal correlation, ρ =sup {0, r 1 , r 2, …}. It is further shown that, at least for m-dependent sequences, the bounds are of the right order and, in a simple example, the errors are evaluated numerically. Bounds of the same order on the rate of convergence of the point processes of exceedances of one or several levels are obtained using a ‘representation' approach (which seems to be of rather wide applicability). As corollaries we obtain rates of convergence of several functionals of the point processes, including the joint distribution function of the k largest values amongst ξ1, …, ξn.


2017 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 388-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip A. Ernst ◽  
Ilie Grigorescu

AbstractWe consider two players, starting withmandnunits, respectively. In each round, the winner is decided with probability proportional to each player's fortune, and the opponent loses one unit. We prove an explicit formula for the probabilityp(m,n) that the first player wins. Whenm~Nx0,n~Ny0, we prove the fluid limit asN→ ∞. Whenx0=y0,z→p(N,N+z√N) converges to the standard normal cumulative distribution function and the difference in fortunes scales diffusively. The exact limit of the time of ruin τNis established as (T- τN) ~N-βW1/β, β = ¼,T=x0+y0. Modulo a constant,W~ χ21(z02/T2).


2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 588-616
Author(s):  
Zakhar Kabluchko ◽  
Dmitry Zaporozhets

AbstractThe Gaussian polytope $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ is the convex hull of n independent standard normally distributed points in $\mathbb{R}^d$ . We derive explicit expressions for the probability that $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ contains a fixed point $x\in\mathbb{R}^d$ as a function of the Euclidean norm of x, and the probability that $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ contains the point $\sigma X$ , where $\sigma\geq 0$ is constant and X is a standard normal vector independent of $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ . As a by-product, we also compute the expected number of k-faces and the expected volume of $\mathcal P_{n,d}$ , thus recovering the results of Affentranger and Schneider (Discr. and Comput. Geometry, 1992) and Efron (Biometrika, 1965), respectively. All formulas are in terms of the volumes of regular spherical simplices, which, in turn, can be expressed through the standard normal distribution function $\Phi(z)$ and its complex version $\Phi(iz)$ . The main tool used in the proofs is the conic version of the Crofton formula.


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