Self-normalized large deviations

Annals of Probability

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 285-328

  Shao, Qi Man ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Large deviation; Law of the iterated logarithm; Limit distribution; Moderate deviation; Self normalized partial sums; t statistic; The Erdos R nyi Shepp law of large numbers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031531828     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1024404289     Document Type: Article

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