A normal approximation replaces a sampling distribution by a normal distribution, often through a central limit theorem. In a Wald test, approximate statistical power is determined by the standardized difference under the alternative. This yields Neyman allocation for fixed treatment-specific variances.
The Lindeberg condition requires the contribution of unusually large summands in a triangular array to become negligible compared with the array's total variance. Together with convergence of that variance, it gives the Lindeberg central limit theorem.
For independent identically distributed centered random variables in a separable Hilbert space with finite second moment, converges in distribution to a centered Gaussian random element with the same covariance operator.
For independent identically distributed with mean zero and variance one,The numerator obeys the central limit theorem, the denominator converges almost surely to one by the strong law, and Slutsky's theorem combines them.
For independent identically distributed increments of mean zero and variance one, the diffusively rescaled, linearly interpolated random walk converges weakly in to Brownian motion.
For a random walk with centered independent identically distributed increments of variance one, the maximum of its polygonal interpolation is the maximum at its grid vertices. The maximum functional is Lipschitz for the supremum norm, so the continuous mapping theorem applied to the Donsker invariance principle proves the displayed convergence in distribution. The Brownian reflection principle then gives upper-tail limits at all , since the limiting maximum has no atom there.
For a random walk with independent identically distributed steps of mean zero and variance one, the Donsker invariance principle and the continuous mapping theorem for integration give this limit. The integral of the polygonal interpolation differs from the right-endpoint sum by , whose squared expectation is . The Slutsky theorem removes that error. The limiting variable is the time-one value of integrated Brownian motion, with law .
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