On extremal distributions and sharp Lp-bounds for sums of multilinear forms

Annals of Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 630-675

  De la Peña, Victor H ^a   Ibragimov, Rustam ^b   Sharakhmetov, Shaturgun ^c  

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

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TASHKENT STATE UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Uzbekistan)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation processes; Burkholder Rosenthal type and Khintchine type inequalities; Decoupling inequalities; Extremal distributions; Long range dependence; Moving average processes; Nonlinear statistics; Statistics; Sums of multilinear forms

Indexed keywords

EID: 18144451633     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1048516531     Document Type: Article

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