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Central limit theorems for a class of symmetric statistics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

N. C. Weber
N. C. Weber
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Statistics, University of Sydney, Australia
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Abstract

Motivated by problems in the analysis of spatial data, central limit theorems are developed for U-statistics whose kernels depend on the size of the observed sample. These theorems are then applied to obtain results for the interpoint distance statistic and the large angle statistic.

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Research Article
Information
Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 94 , Issue 2 , September 1983 , pp. 307 - 313
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1983

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