Central Limit Theorem and Near classical Berry-Esseen rate for self normalized sums in high dimensions
In this article, we are interested in the high dimensional normal approximation of in uniformly over the class of hyper-rectangles , where are non-degenerate independent dimensional random vectors. We assume that the components of are independent and identically distributed (iid) and investigate the optimal cut-off rate of in the uniform central limit theorem (UCLT) for over . The aim is to reduce the exponential moment conditions, generally assumed for exponential growth of the dimension with respect to the sample size in high dimensional CLT, to some polynomial moment conditions. Indeed, we establish that only the existence of some polynomial moment of order is sufficient for exponential growth of . However the rate of growth of can not further be improved from as a power of even if 's are iid across and is bounded. We also establish near Berry-Esseen rate for in high dimension under the existence of th absolute moments of for . When , the obtained Berry-Esseen rate is also shown to be optimal. As an application, we find respective versions for component-wise Student's t-statistic, which may be useful in high dimensional statistical inference.
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