Stein's method has emerged as a powerful and versatile tool in probability theory for deriving error bounds in distributional approximations. Originally developed to ...

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Two mathematicians who showed how an underappreciated branch of the field could be employed to solve important problems share this year’s Abel Prize, the mathematics equivalent of a Nobel. The ...