## Electronic Communications in Probability

### Berry-Esseen Bounds for Projections of Coordinate Symmetric Random Vectors

#### Abstract

For a coordinate symmetric random vector $(Y_1,\ldots,Y_n)={\bf Y} \in \mathbb{R}^n$, that is, one satisfying $(Y_1,\ldots,Y_n)=_d(e_1Y_1,\ldots,e_nY_n)$ for all $(e_1,\ldots,e_n) \in \{-1,1\}^n$, for which $P(Y_i=0)=0$ for all $i=1,2,\ldots,n$, the following Berry Esseen bound to the cumulative standard normal $\Phi$ for the standardized projection $W_\theta=Y_\theta/v_\theta$ of ${\bf Y}$ holds: $$\sup_{x \in \mathbb{R}}|P(W_\theta \leq x) - \Phi(x)| \leq 2 \sum_{i=1}^n |\theta_i|^3 E| X_i|^3 + 8.4 E(V_\theta^2-1)^2,$$ where $Y_\theta=\theta \cdot {\bf Y}$ is the projection of ${\bf Y}$ in direction $\theta \in \mathbb{R}^n$ with $||\theta||=1$, $v_\theta=\sqrt{\mbox{Var}(Y_\theta)},X_i=|Y_i|/v_\theta$ and $V_\theta=\sum_{i=1}^n \theta_i^2 X_i^2$. As such coordinate symmetry arises in the study of projections of vectors chosen uniformly from the surface of convex bodies which have symmetries with respect to the coordinate planes, the main result is applied to a class of coordinate symmetric vectors which includes cone measure ${\cal C}_p^n$ on the $\ell_p^n$ sphere as a special case, resulting in a bound of order $\sum_{i=1}^n |\theta_i|^3$.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. Commun. Probab., Volume 14 (2009), paper no. 46, 474-485.

Dates
Accepted: 30 October 2009
First available in Project Euclid: 6 June 2016

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465234755

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/ECP.v14-1502

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR2559097

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1189.60051

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#### Citation

Goldstein, Larry; Shao, Qi-Man. Berry-Esseen Bounds for Projections of Coordinate Symmetric Random Vectors. Electron. Commun. Probab. 14 (2009), paper no. 46, 474--485. doi:10.1214/ECP.v14-1502. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ecp/1465234755

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