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# Stein’s Method Meets Statistics: A Review of Some Recent Developments

@inproceedings{Anastasiou2021SteinsMM,
title={Stein’s Method Meets Statistics: A Review of Some Recent Developments},
author={Andreas Anastasiou and Alessandro Barp and François-Xavier Briol and Bruno Ebner and Robert E. Gaunt and Fatemeh Ghaderinezhad and Jackson Gorham and Arthur and Gretton and Christophe Ley and Qiang Liu and Lester W. Mackey and Chris. J. Oates and Gesine Reinert and Yvik Swan},
year={2021}
}
• Published 2021
• Mathematics
Stein’s method is a collection of tools for analysing distributional comparisons through the study of a class of linear operators called Stein operators. Originally studied in probability, Stein’s method has also enabled some important developments in statistics. This early success has led to a high research activity in this area in recent years. The goal of this survey is to bring together some of these developments in theoretical statistics as well as in computational statistics and, in doing…
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