IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/stapro/v51y2001i4p397-408.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

An Esséen-type inequality for probability density functions, with an application

Author

Listed:
  • Roussas, George G.

Abstract

In this note, an upper bound is provided for the supremum of the absolute value of the difference of the probability density functions of two k-dimensional random vectors. The bound involves integrals of the absolute value of the characteristic functions of the random vectors, and shares a general similarity with a bound obtained by Sadikova for distribution functions of two-dimensional random vectors. Sadikova's paper provided the impetus for this note. Special cases are considered, and an application is presented, regarding consistency of a kernel estimate in the framework of associated random variables.

Suggested Citation

  • Roussas, George G., 2001. "An Esséen-type inequality for probability density functions, with an application," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 51(4), pages 397-408, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:51:y:2001:i:4:p:397-408
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167-7152(00)00181-4
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Roussas, G. G., 1994. "Asymptotic Normality of Random Fields of Positively or Negatively Associated Processes," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 50(1), pages 152-173, July.
    2. Bagai, Isha & Prakasa Rao, B. L. S., 1991. "Estimation of the survival function for stationary associated processes," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 12(5), pages 385-391, November.
    3. Roussas, George G., 1995. "Asymptotic normality of a smooth estimate of a random field distribution function under association," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 77-90, July.
    4. Roussas, George G., 1991. "Kernel estimates under association: strong uniform consistency," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 12(5), pages 393-403, November.
    5. Isha Bagai & B. Prakasa Rao, 1995. "Kernel-type density and failure rate estimation for associated sequences," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Springer;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 47(2), pages 253-266, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Prakasa Rao, B. L. S., 2002. "Another Esséen-type inequality for multivariate probability density functions," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 60(2), pages 191-199, November.
    2. Chang, Wan-Ying & Richards, Donald St.P., 2009. "Finite-sample inference with monotone incomplete multivariate normal data, I," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(9), pages 1883-1899, October.
    3. Li, Yongming & Yang, Shanchao & Wei, Chengdong, 2011. "Some inequalities for strong mixing random variables with applications to density estimation," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 250-258, February.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ioannides, D. A. & Roussas, G. G., 1999. "Exponential inequality for associated random variables," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 42(4), pages 423-431, May.
    2. Cai, Zongwu & Roussas, George G., 1998. "Kaplan-Meier Estimator under Association," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 67(2), pages 318-348, November.
    3. Masry, Elias, 2003. "Local polynomial fitting under association," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 86(2), pages 330-359, August.
    4. Guodong Xing & Shanchao Yang, 2010. "Some Exponential Inequalities for Positively Associated Random Variables and Rates of Convergence of the Strong Law of Large Numbers," Journal of Theoretical Probability, Springer, vol. 23(1), pages 169-192, March.
    5. Li, Yongming & Yang, Shanchao & Wei, Chengdong, 2011. "Some inequalities for strong mixing random variables with applications to density estimation," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 250-258, February.
    6. Roussas, George G., 1995. "Asymptotic normality of a smooth estimate of a random field distribution function under association," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 24(1), pages 77-90, July.
    7. Huang, Wen-Tao & Xu, Bing, 2002. "Some maximal inequalities and complete convergences of negatively associated random sequences," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 57(2), pages 183-191, April.
    8. Pierre Jacob & Paulo Oliveira, 1999. "Histograms and Associated Point Processes," Statistical Inference for Stochastic Processes, Springer, vol. 2(3), pages 227-251, October.
    9. Masry, Elias, 2002. "Multivariate probability density estimation for associated processes: strong consistency and rates," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 58(2), pages 205-219, June.
    10. Guessoum, Zohra & Ould Saïd, Elias & Sadki, Ourida & Tatachak, Abdelkader, 2012. "A note on the Lynden-Bell estimator under association," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(11), pages 1994-2000.
    11. Liang, Han-Ying & Fan, Guo-Liang, 2009. "Berry-Esseen type bounds of estimators in a semiparametric model with linear process errors," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 100(1), pages 1-15, January.
    12. Chaubey, Yogendra P. & Dewan, Isha & Li, Jun, 2011. "Smooth estimation of survival and density functions for a stationary associated process using Poisson weights," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 81(2), pages 267-276, February.
    13. Garg, Mansi & Dewan, Isha, 2015. "On asymptotic behavior of U-statistics for associated random variables," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 209-220.
    14. Li, Yongming & Yang, Shanchao & Zhou, Yong, 2008. "Consistency and uniformly asymptotic normality of wavelet estimator in regression model with associated samples," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(17), pages 2947-2956, December.
    15. Gonzalo Perera, 1997. "Geometry of $$\mathbb{Z}^d $$ and the Central Limit Theorem for Weakly Dependent Random Fields," Journal of Theoretical Probability, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 581-603, July.
    16. Bing-Yi Jing & Han-Ying Liang, 2008. "Strong Limit Theorems for Weighted Sums of Negatively Associated Random Variables," Journal of Theoretical Probability, Springer, vol. 21(4), pages 890-909, December.
    17. Isha Bagai & B. Prakasa Rao, 1995. "Kernel-type density and failure rate estimation for associated sequences," Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Springer;The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, vol. 47(2), pages 253-266, June.
    18. Liang, Han-Ying, 2000. "Complete convergence for weighted sums of negatively associated random variables," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 48(4), pages 317-325, July.
    19. Wang, Jiang-Feng & Liang, Han-Ying, 2008. "A note on the almost sure central limit theorem for negatively associated fields," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 78(13), pages 1964-1970, September.
    20. Bulinski, Alexander & Suquet, Charles, 2001. "Normal approximation for quasi-associated random fields," Statistics & Probability Letters, Elsevier, vol. 54(2), pages 215-226, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:stapro:v:51:y:2001:i:4:p:397-408. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622892/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.