Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1151950 Statistics & Probability Letters 2014 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

We establish a large deviation approximation for the density function of an arbitrary sequence of random variables. The results are analogous to those obtained by Chaganty and Sethuraman (1985). We apply our theorems to the sample variance and the Mann–Whitney two-sample statistic.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Statistics and Probability
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