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On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference

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  • Bilodeau, Blair
  • Tang, Yanbo
  • Stringer, Alex

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Laplace’s method is used to approximate intractable integrals in a statistical problems. The relative error rate of the approximation is not worse than Op(n−1). We provide the first statistical lower bounds showing that the n−1 rate is tight.

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  • Bilodeau, Blair & Tang, Yanbo & Stringer, Alex, 2023. "On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 198(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:198:y:2023:i:c:s0167715223000639
    DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2023.109839
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