Lemma
Stein Bounds for TV Metric
Stein's Lemma
Stein's Equation
Stein's Method
TV Metric
Proposition
We take the seperating class that defined the total variation metric :
\[
\mathcal{H}_{TV} = \{\mathbb{1}_B : B \in \mathcal{B}(\mathbb{R})\}
\]
The proposition is as follows:
Let $h : \mathbb{R} \to [0,1]$ (a bigger subset than of indicator functions), be a Borel function. Then
Then if we denote $f_h$ the solution to the Stein equation associated with $h$ then we have
\[
||f_h||< \sqrt{\pi/2} and ||f'_h||_\infty \le 2
\]
Proof
Recall
\[
f_h(x) = e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^x [h(y)-\mathbb{E}(h(N))]e^{y^2/2} dy
\]
Note that
\[
|h(y)-\mathbb{E}(h(N))|\le 1
\]
Note that :
\[
\int_{-\infty}^x = \int_{-\infty}^\infty - \int_x^{\infty} = - \int_x^{\infty}
\]
So,
\[
|f_h(x)| \le e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^x e^{y^2/2} dy
\]
But also
\[
|f_h(x)| \le e^{x^2/2}\int_{x}^\infty e^{y^2/2} dy
\]
If $x>0$, then
\[
|f_h(x)| \le e^{x^2/2}\int_{|x|}^\infty e^{y^2/2} dy
\]
If $x<0$, then
\[
|f_h(x)| \le e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^{|x|} e^{y^2/2} dy = e^{x^2/2}\int_{|x|}^{\infty} e^{y^2/2}
\]
We have obtained that
\[
|f_h(x)| \le e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^{|x|} e^{y^2/2} dy = e^{x^2/2}\int_{|x|}^{\infty} e^{-y^2/2} dy \quad \forall x
\]
The function $x \mapsto e^{x^2/2}\int_{|x|}^{\infty} e^{-y^2/2} dy$ attins its maximum at $x=0$. and
\[
\int_0^\infty e^{y^2/2}dy = \sqrt{\pi/2}
\]
Which proves the result by taking the $\sup$.
For the derivative,
\[
f_h'(x) = x e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^x [h(y)-\mathbb{E}(h(N))]e^{-y^2/2}dy
+ 0 = h(x)-\mathbb{E}(h(N))+xe^{x^2/2}\int ... dy
\]
Now we take bounds
\[
|f'_h(x)| \le 1 + |x|e^{x^2/2}\int_{-\infty}^x e^{-y^2/2}
\]
\begin{lemma}[Kol Topology > Cvg Cdf Topology]
Kolmogorov Metric
The topology induced by the Kolmogorov metric is strictly stronger than the topology induced by convergence of CDFs of random variables.
\end{lemma}
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