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A strong law of large numbers for martingale arrays

Probability 2009-05-19 v1 Statistics Theory Statistics Theory

Abstract

We prove a martingale triangular array generalization of the Chow-Birnbaum-Marshall's inequality. The result is used to derive a strong law of large numbers for martingale triangular arrays whose rows are asymptotically stable in a certain sense. To illustrate, we derive a simple proof, based on martingale arguments, of the consistency of kernel regression with dependent data. Another application can be found in \cite{atchadeetfort08} where the new inequality is used to prove a strong law of large numbers for adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.

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@article{arxiv.0905.2761,
  title  = {A strong law of large numbers for martingale arrays},
  author = {Yves F. Atchade},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.2761},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages