A general class of exponential inequalities for martingales and ratios

Annals of Probability

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 537-564

  De La Peña, Victor H ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Decoupling; Exponential martingale inequalities; Self normalized

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032622766     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1022677271     Document Type: Article

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