The Annals of Statistics, Vol. 49, No. 4, Memorial issue for Charles Stein (August 2021), pp. 1850-1863 (14 pages) This paper is a short exposition of Stein’s method of normal approximation from my ...

The normal approximation to the binomial test with and without a continuity correction is evaluated in terms of control of Type I errors and power. The normal ...

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