Refined normal approximations for the Student distribution

Abstract

In this paper, we develop a local limit theorem for the Student distribution. We use it to improve the normal approximation of the Student survival function given in Shafiei & Saberali (2015) and to derive asymptotic bounds for the corresponding maximal errors at four levels of approximation. As a corollary, approximations for the percentage points (or quantiles) of the Student distribution are obtained in terms of the percentage points of the standard normal distribution.

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