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 ...

A normal approximation to the null distribution of the likelihood ratio statistic for testing the multivariate general linear hypothesis is developed. This approximation is compared with the ...

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