Probability approximations and beyond
By: Andrew D. Barbour, Hock Peng Chan, David Siegmund, (eds.).
Contributors: Chen, Louis H. Y. (Louis Hsiao Yun), 1940-
Series: Lecture notes in statistics -- v. 205. -- Proceedings; Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag) -- v. 205.; Lecture notes in statistics (Springer-Verlag)
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9781461419655; 9781461419662
Subjects: Probabilities; Approximation theory; Congresses
Notes: Selected 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.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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.