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Rate of convergence and Edgeworth-type expansion in the entropic central limit theorem. (English) Zbl 1296.60051
Authors’ abstract: An Edgeworth-type expansion is established for the entropy distance to the class of normal distributions of sums of i.i.d. random variables or vectors, satisfying minimal moment conditions.

##### MSC:
 60F05 Central limit and other weak theorems 28D20 Entropy and other invariants 94A17 Measures of information, entropy
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