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- Title
A Generalized Equilibrium Transform with Application to Error Bounds in the Rényi Theorem with No Support Constraints.
- Authors
Shevtsova, Irina; Tselishchev, Mikhail
- Abstract
We introduce a generalized stationary renewal distribution (also called the equilibrium transform) for arbitrary distributions with finite nonzero first moment and study its properties. In particular, we prove an optimal moment-type inequality for the Kantorovich distance between a distribution and its equilibrium transform. Using the introduced transform and Stein's method, we investigate the rate of convergence in the Rényi theorem for the distributions of geometric sums of independent random variables with identical nonzero means and finite second moments without any constraints on their supports. We derive an upper bound for the Kantorovich distance between the normalized geometric random sum and the exponential distribution which has exact order of smallness as the expectation of the geometric number of summands tends to infinity. Moreover, we introduce the so-called asymptotically best constant and present its lower bound yielding the one for the Kantorovich distance under consideration. As a concluding remark, we provide an extension of the obtained estimates of the accuracy of the exponential approximation to non-geometric random sums of independent random variables with non-identical nonzero means.
- Subjects
GEOMETRIC distribution; EXPONENTIAL sums; RANDOM variables; EQUILIBRIUM; INDEPENDENT variables; CHARACTERISTIC functions; NONCOOPERATIVE games (Mathematics)
- Publication
Mathematics (2227-7390), 2020, Vol 8, Issue 4, p577
- ISSN
2227-7390
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/math8040577