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Saddlepoint approximations in conditional inference

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Suojin Wang
Suojin Wang*
Affiliation:
Texas A&M University
*
∗∗ Postal address: Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
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Abstract

Saddlepoint approximations are derived for the conditional cumulative distribution function and density of where is the sample mean of n i.i.d. bivariate random variables and g(x, y) is a non-linear function. The relative error of order O(n–1) is retained. The results extend the important work of Skovgaard (1987), and are useful in conditional inference, especially in the case of small or moderate sample sizes. Generalizations to higher-dimensional random vectors are also discussed. Some examples are demonstrated.

Keywords

ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONCONDITIONAL DENSITYCONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTIONCONDITIONAL INFERENCENON-LINEAR CONDITIONING
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 1993 , pp. 397 - 404
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1993 

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