An Edgeworth expansion with remainder o(N⁻¹) is established for a U-statistic with a kernel h of degree 2. The assumptions involved appear to be very mild; in particular, the common distribution of the summands h(Xᵢ, Xⱼ) is not assumed to be smooth.
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Bickel et al. (1986) studied this question.
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