Necessary and sufficient conditions for the strong law of large numbers for U-statistics

Annals of Probability

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1908-1924

  Latala, Rafal ^a   Zinn, Joel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Random series; Strong law of large numbers; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034558652     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1019160513     Document Type: Article

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