On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference

Published in Statistics and Probability Letters, 2023

Recommended citation: Bilodeau, Tang, and Stringer (2023). On the tightness of the Laplace approximation for statistical inference. Statistics and Probability Letters, 198, 109839. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167715223000639

This paper demonstrates that the error rate of the Laplace approximation is tight by providing a sharp lower bound for it.