On the approximation of an integral by a sum of random variables

On the approximation of an integral by a sum of random variables

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Article ID: iaor19992701
Country: United States
Volume: 11
Issue: 2
Start Page Number: 107
End Page Number: 114
Publication Date: Apr 1998
Journal: Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis
Authors: ,
Keywords: statistics: empirical
Abstract:

We approximate the integral of a smooth function of [0, 1], where values are only known at n random points (i.e., a random sample from the uniform-(0, 1) distribution), and at 0 and 1. Our approximations are based on the trapezoidal rule and Simpson's rule (generalized to the non-equidistant case), respectively. In the first case, we obtain an n2-rate of convergence with a degenerate limiting distribution; in the second case, the rate of convergence is as fast as n31/2, whereas the limiting distribution is Gaussian then.

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