On the rate of uniform convergence of the product-limit estimator: Strong and weak laws

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1050-1087

  Chen, Kani ^a   Lo, Shaw Hwa ^b  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Counting process; Domain of attraction; Feller chung lemma; Kolmogorov zero one law; Law of large numbers; Martingale inequality; Slowly varying function; Stable law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031493871     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1069362738     Document Type: Article

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