The relevant paper is "An estimate of the remainder in a combinatorial central limit theorem" by Erwin Bolthausen. I would like to understand the estimate on page three right before the sentence "where we used independence of Sn−1 and Xn":
begin{align}E|f'(S_n) - f'(S_{n-1})| &le E bigg(frac{|X_n|}{sqrt{n}} big(1 + 2|S_{n-1}| + frac{1}{lambda} int_0^1 1_{[z,z+lambda]} (S_{n-1} + t frac{X_n}{ sqrt{n}}) dtbig)bigg) \ &le frac{C}{sqrt{n}} big(1 + delta(gamma, n-1) / lambdabig)end{align}
that is, where delta(gamma,n−1)/lambda shows up, which is the error term in the Berry-Esséen bound.
Here Sn=sumni=1Xi/sqrtn and X1,ldots,Xn are iid with EXi=0, EX2i=1, and E|Xi|3=gamma. Furthermore, denote mathcalLn to be the set of all sequences of n random variables satisfying the above assumptions, then
delta(lambda,gamma,n)=sup|E(hz,lambda(Sn))−Phi(hz,lambda)|:zinmathbbR,X1,ldots,XninmathcalLn
and hz,lambda(x)=((1+(z−x)/lambda)wedge1)vee0 and delta(gamma,n) is a short hand for delta(0,gamma,n), and hz,0 is interpreted as 1(−infty,z]. I am mainly interested in verifying the second inequality, so I don't need to reproduce the definition of f here, but it is related to h.
This paper is freely available online through springer. thanks in advance.
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