Strong law of large numbers for U-statistics of varying order

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 263-270

  Rempała, Grzegorz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Complete convergence; Martingale difference decomposition; Strong law of large numbers for the arrays of random variables; U statistics of varying order

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032528777     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00065-0     Document Type: Article

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