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Research Report SRR95-040

Comparisons of variance estimators and their effects for studentized U statistics

Yoshihiko Maesono

Abstract: We obtain approximations of several variance estimators of U-statistics and discuss effects for studentizations via Edgeworth expansions. In this paper we obtain asymptotic representations of jackknife, unbiased and Sen's (1960) variance estimators and using the representations we establish the Edgeworth expansions of studentized U-statistics with remainder term o(n-1). We also show that Hinkley's (1978) corrected jackknife estimator coincides the unbiased variance estimator until the order op(n-1).


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