Some remarks on coupling of dependent random variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 201-209

  Peligrad, Magda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

Author keywords

Coefficients of dependence; Coupling; Strong mixing; Uniform law of large numbers; Weakly dependent sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037111745     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(02)00318-8     Document Type: Article

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