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| Title: | Saddlepoint approximations for student's t-statistic without moment conditions |
| Authors: | Zhou, Wang |
| Issue Date: | 2004 |
| Abstract: | Saddlepoint approximations for Student's t-statistics were derived by Daniels and Young (1991) under the indeed stringent exponential moment condition that the underlying density function dies away at least as fast as a normal density in the tails. This is a severe restriction on its applicability. In this thesis, we show that this strong exponential moment restriction can be dispensed off completely, i.e., saddlepoint approximations for the Student's t-statistic remain valid without any moment condition. We also derive saddlepoint approximations for the distribution of Student's t-statistic for lattice random variables without moment conditions. Our results imply that saddlepoint approximations provide very accurate approximations for Student's t-statistic and can be applied much more widely in statistical inference.
The first part of this thesis has been accepted by the Annals of Statistics. |
| Description: | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2004
vii, 82 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm
HKUST Call Number: Thesis MATH 2004 Zhou |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1783.1/2012 |
| Appears in Collections: | MATH Doctoral Theses
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