The Law of the Iterated Logarithm for Functionals of Harris Recurrent Markov Chains: Self Normalization

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 421-445

  Chen, Xia ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atom; D set; Harris recurrent markov chain; Invariant measure; Law of the iterated logarithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042136991     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021630228280     Document Type: Article

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