A Berry-Esseen bound for the uniform multinomial occupancy model
Abstract
The inductive size bias coupling technique and Stein's method yield a Berry-Esseen theorem for the number of urns having occupancy $d \ge 2$ when $n$ balls are uniformly distributed over $m$ urns. In particular, there exists a constant $C$ depending only on $d$ such that $$ \sup_{z \in \mathbb{R}}|P(W_{n,m} \le z) -P(Z \le z)| \le C \left( \frac{1+(\frac{n}{m})^3}{\sigma_{n,m}} \right) \quad \mbox{for all $n \ge d$ and $m \ge 2$,} $$ where $W_{n,m}$ and $\sigma_{n,m}^2$ are the standardized count and variance, respectively, of the number of urns with $d$ balls, and $Z$ is a standard normal random variable. Asymptotically, the bound is optimal up to constants if $n$ and $m$ tend to infinity together in a way such that $n/m$ stays bounded.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2012
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1202.0909
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1202.0909
- Bibcode:
- 2012arXiv1202.0909B
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Probability;
- Mathematics - Statistics Theory;
- 60F05;
- 60C05
- E-Print:
- Typo corrected in abstract