Weak approximations for quantile processes of stationary sequences

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 403-430

  Csörgo, Miklós ^a   Yu, Hao ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Association; Bahadur Kiefer representations; Empirical process; Mixing; Quantile process; Stationarity; Weighted convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444435196     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3315325     Document Type: Article

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