The Approximate Distribution of Student's Statistic
Chung, Kai-Lai
Ann. Math. Statist., Tome 17 (1946) no. 4, p. 447-465 / Harvested from Project Euclid
It is well known that various statistics of a large sample (of size $n$) are approximately distributed according to the normal law. The asymptotic expansion of the distribution of the statistic in a series of powers of $n^{-\frac{1}{2}}$ with a remainder term gives the accuracy of the approximation. H. Cramer [1] first obtained the asymptotic expansion of the mean, and recently P. L. Hsu [2] has obtained that of the variance of a sample. In the present paper we extend the Cramer-Hsu method to Student's statistic. The theorem proved states essentially that if the population distribution is non-singular and if the existence of a sufficient number of moments is assumed, then an asymptotic expansion can be obtained with the appropriate remainder. The first four terms of the expansion are exhibited in formula (35).
Publié le : 1946-12-14
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Chung, Kai-Lai. The Approximate Distribution of Student's Statistic. Ann. Math. Statist., Tome 17 (1946) no. 4, pp.  447-465. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1177730884/