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Probability approximations and beyond / Andrew D. Barbour, Hock Peng Chan, David Siegmund, (eds.).

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York ; London : Springer,
Descriptionxiv, 159 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Springer Nature - Springer Mathematics and Statistics eBooks 2012 English International
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Subject(s)
Other author/creatorBarbour, Andrew D.
Other author/creatorChan, Hock Peng.
Other author/creatorSiegmund, David, 1941-
Other author/creatorChen, Louis H. Y. (Louis Hsiao Yun), 1940-
Series Lecture notes in statistics ; v. 205. Proceedings
Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) ; v. 205.
Contents Stein's methods: Couplings for irregular combinatorial assemblies / Andrew D. Barbour and Anna Pósfai. Berry-Esseen inequality for unbounded exchangeable pairs / Yanchu Chen and Qi-Man Shao. Clubbed binomial approximation for the lightbulb process / LArry Goldstein and Aihua Xia. Coverage of random discs driven by a poisson point process / Guo-Lie Lan, Zhi-Ming Ma and Su-Yong Sun. On the optimality of Stein factors / Adrian Röllin -- Related topics: Basic estimates of stability rate for one-dimensional diffusions / Mu-Fa Chen. Trend analysis of extreme values / Goedele Dierckx and Jef Teugels. Renormalizations in white noise analysis / Takeyuki Hida. M-dependence approximation for dependent random variables / Zheng-Yan Lin and Weidong Liu. Variable selection for classification and regression in large p, small n problems / Wei-Lin Loh.
General noteSelected papers from a conference, Probability Approximations and Beyond, held 25-26 June 2010 at the National University of Singapore (NUS) to honor Louis Chen on his 70th birthday.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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LCCN 2011941623
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