Boglioni Beaulieu, Guillaume and Lafaye de Micheaux, Pierre and Ouimet, Frédéric (2021) Counterexamples to the classical Central Limit Theorem for triplewise independent random variables having a common arbitrary margin. . (Unpublished) https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210413-073459048
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Abstract
We construct explicitly two sequences of triplewise independent random variables having a common but arbitrary marginal distribution F (satisfying very mild conditions) for which a Central Limit Theorem (CLT) does not hold. We obtain, in closed form, the asymptotic distributions of the sample means of those sequences, which are seen to depend on the specific choice of F. This allows us to illustrate the extent of the `failure' of the classical CLT under triplewise independence. Our methodology is simple and can also be used to create, for any integer K, new K-tuplewise independent but dependent sequences (which are useful to assess the ability of independence tests to detect complex dependence). For K≥4, it appears that the sequences thus created do verify a CLT, and we explain heuristically why this is the case.
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Additional Information: | G. B. B. acknowledges financial support from UNSW Sydney under a University International Postgraduate Award, from UNSW Business School under a supplementary scholarship, and from the FRQNT (B2). F. O. is supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from the NSERC (PDF) and the FRQNT (B3X supplement). This research includes computations using the computational cluster Katana supported by Research Technology Services at UNSW Sydney. | ||||||||
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Subject Keywords: | central limit theorem, graph theory, mutual independence, non-Gaussian asymptotic distribution, triplewise independence, variance-gamma distribution | ||||||||
Classification Code: | 2020 MSC: Primary: 62E20; Secondary: 60F05, 60E10 | ||||||||
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Deposited On: | 13 Apr 2021 21:42 | ||||||||
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