On the LIL for Self-Normalized Sums of IID Random Variables

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 351-370

  Giné, Evarist ^a   Mason, David M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Feller class; Law of the iterated logarithm; Self normalized sums; Student t statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032336168     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022675620729     Document Type: Article

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