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DasGupta, A. (2008). Edgeworth Expansions and Cumulants. In: Asymptotic Theory of Statistics and Probability. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75971-5_13

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