Polynomial convergence order of stochastic Bernstein approximation.

Recently, authors of Wu et al. (Adv. Comput. Math. 38:187-205, 2013) studied a Bernstein polynomial approximation scheme based on stochastic sampling and obtained a sixth-order moment estimate for the underlying random variable in terms of the modulus of continuity. In the current paper, we employ a new technique and establish estimates for all the even-order moments. Our work gives a strong indication that the probabilistic convergence rate of the stochastic Bernstein approximation is exponential with respect to the modulus of continuity, which we leave as a conjecture at the end of the paper. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]