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Improved confidence regions based on Edgeworth expansions

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  • Withers, Christopher S.
  • Nadarajah, Saralees

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Let ŵ be a consistent estimate of w in Rp satisfying the standard cumulant expansion in powers of n−1 with asymptotic covariance n−1V. Then n1/2(ŵ−w) has the standard Edgeworth expansion about Np(0,V). We obtain from this the Edgeworth expansions for Tn(V)=n(ŵ−w)′V−1(ŵ−w) about χp2 and for its Studentized version, Tn(V̂). So, we obtain a confidence region for w of level α+O(n−2).

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  • Withers, Christopher S. & Nadarajah, Saralees, 2012. "Improved confidence regions based on Edgeworth expansions," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 56(12), pages 4366-4380.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:56:y:2012:i:12:p:4366-4380
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2012.03.019
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