Nonuniform Berry-Esseen bounds for martingales with applications to statistical estimation

Abstract

We establish nonuniform Berry-Esseen bounds for martingales under the conditional Bernstein condition. These bounds imply Cram\'er type large deviations for moderate $x$'s, and are of exponential decay rate as de la Pe\~na's inequality when $x\rightarrow \infty$. Statistical applications associated with linear regressions and self-normalized large deviations are also provided.