Hoeffding decompositions and urn sequences

Annals of Probability

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2280-2310

  El Dakkak, Omar ^a   Peccati, Giovanni ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Exchangeable sequences; Hoeffding decompositions; P lya urns; Weak independence

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849147901     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/07-AOP389     Document Type: Article

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