Seminar - Dr. Miles Lopes (UC Davis)

Event Date: 

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm

Event Location: 

  • HSSB 1173
  • Department Seminar
Title: Rates of Approximation for CLT and Bootstrap in High Dimensions.
 
Abstract: In the setting of low-dimensional data, it is well known that the distribution of a sample mean can be consistently approximated using the CLT or bootstrap methods. Also, the classical Berry-Esseen theorem shows that such approximations can achieve a rate of order n, where accuracy is measured with respect to the Kolmogorov distance. However, until recently, it was an open problem to determine if Berry-Esseen type bounds with near n rates can be established in the context of high-dimensional data --- which stimulated many advances in the literature during the last several years. ln this talk, I will survey these developments and discuss some of my own work on this problem.
 
Speaker's Webpage: Miles Lopes