Weak convergence of sequences of first passage processes and applications

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 327-345

  Ralescu, Stefan S ^a   Puri, Madan L ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bahadur representation; Empirical and quantile processes; First passage processes; Integrated kernel quantiles; U staistics structure; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030191482     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0304-4149(96)00054-3     Document Type: Article

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