Contributions

  • Fernǹdez-Val, Ivǹ - Contributor
  • Galichon, Alfred - Contributor
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics - Contributor

Publication

2007 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, Cambridge, MA, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

5,500 words, Guess

Page Count

22 pages

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Description

This paper applies a regularization procedure called increasing rearrangement to monotonize Edgeworth and Cornish-Fisher expansions and any other related approximations of distribution and quantile functions of sample statistics. Besides satisfying the logical monotonicity, required of distribution and quantile functions, the procedure often delivers strikingly better approximations to the distribution and quantile functions of the sample mean than the original Edgeworth-Cornish-Fisher expansions. Keywords: Edgeworth expansion, Cornish-Fisher expansion, rearrangement.

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Series Statement

  • Working paper series / Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics -- working paper 07-20
  • Working paper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Economics) -- no. 07-20.

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