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An analogue of the Berry–Esseen inequality is proved for the speed of convergence of free additive convolutions of bounded probability measures. The obtained rate of convergence is of the order n −1/2, the same as in the classical case. An example with binomial measures shows that this estimate cannot be improved without imposing further restrictions on convolved measures.
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V. Kargin is grateful to Diana Bloom for her help with editing this paper.
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Kargin, V. Berry–Esseen for Free Random Variables. J Theor Probab 20, 381–395 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10959-007-0097-7
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