Edgeworth series
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The Edgeworth series is a statistical expansion used in probability theory to approximate probability distributions by correcting the normal distribution with higher-order cumulants.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edgeworth series canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgeworth series Context triple: [Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, knownFor, Edgeworth series]
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Edgeworth
Edgeworth is an English surname most notably associated with the Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his prominent family.
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B.
Edgeworth
Edgeworth is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, situated near Cockle Creek.
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C.
Mapp and Lucia series
The Mapp and Lucia series is a collection of comic novels by E.F. Benson that satirically portrays the social rivalries and pretensions of upper-middle-class English village life in the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Blandings Castle series
The Blandings Castle series is a collection of comic novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse centered on the amiably absent-minded Lord Emsworth, his eccentric family, and the idyllic Shropshire estate of Blandings Castle.
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E.
The Ayrshire Legatees
The Ayrshire Legatees is an early 19th-century epistolary novel by Scottish writer John Galt that humorously portrays a provincial Scottish family's encounters with London society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edgeworth series Target entity description: The Edgeworth series is a statistical expansion used in probability theory to approximate probability distributions by correcting the normal distribution with higher-order cumulants.
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A.
Edgeworth
Edgeworth is an English surname most notably associated with the Anglo-Irish inventor and educationalist Richard Lovell Edgeworth and his prominent family.
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B.
Edgeworth
Edgeworth is a suburb in the Lake Macquarie region of New South Wales, Australia, situated near Cockle Creek.
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C.
Mapp and Lucia series
The Mapp and Lucia series is a collection of comic novels by E.F. Benson that satirically portrays the social rivalries and pretensions of upper-middle-class English village life in the 1920s and 1930s.
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D.
Blandings Castle series
The Blandings Castle series is a collection of comic novels and stories by P. G. Wodehouse centered on the amiably absent-minded Lord Emsworth, his eccentric family, and the idyllic Shropshire estate of Blandings Castle.
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E.
The Ayrshire Legatees
The Ayrshire Legatees is an early 19th-century epistolary novel by Scottish writer John Galt that humorously portrays a provincial Scottish family's encounters with London society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
asymptotic expansion
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probability theory concept ⓘ statistical method ⓘ |
| appliesTo |
independent and identically distributed random variables
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sums of random variables ⓘ |
| approximationOrder | can be extended to arbitrary finite order in 1/sqrt(n) ⓘ |
| assumes | existence of sufficiently high-order moments ⓘ |
| basedOn |
cumulants
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moments of a distribution ⓘ |
| comparedWith |
Gram–Charlier A series
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linked to:
Gram–Charlier series
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| domain |
continuous distributions
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discrete distributions (via continuity corrections) ⓘ |
| expandsAround | normal distribution ⓘ |
| field |
mathematical statistics
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probability theory ⓘ |
| generalizationOf | normal approximation ⓘ |
| goal | to approximate distribution functions more accurately than the normal distribution alone ⓘ |
| hasAdvantageOver | Gram–Charlier series in asymptotic justification ⓘ |
| hasProperty |
asymptotic in sample size
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may not define a proper probability density for finite truncation ⓘ |
| historicalPublicationPeriod | late 19th century ⓘ |
| improves | rate of convergence of normal approximation ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Francis Ysidro Edgeworth ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Gram–Charlier series
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central limit theorem ⓘ saddlepoint approximation ⓘ |
| representation |
polynomial corrections to the normal density
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series in powers of n^{-1/2} ⓘ |
| requires | standardization of the random variable ⓘ |
| usedBy |
applied probabilists
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econometricians ⓘ statisticians ⓘ |
| usedFor |
approximating distribution of standardized sums
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approximating probability distributions ⓘ approximating sampling distributions ⓘ refining normal approximation ⓘ |
| usedIn |
confidence interval approximation
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econometrics ⓘ hypothesis testing ⓘ theoretical statistics ⓘ |
| usesConcept |
higher-order cumulants
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kurtosis ⓘ skewness ⓘ standardized cumulants ⓘ |
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Subject: Edgeworth series Description of subject: The Edgeworth series is a statistical expansion used in probability theory to approximate probability distributions by correcting the normal distribution with higher-order cumulants.
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subject linked to:
Edgeworth family