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August 2011 A note on a maximal Bernstein inequality
Péter Kevei, David M. Mason
Bernoulli 17(3): 1054-1062 (August 2011). DOI: 10.3150/10-BEJ304

Abstract

We show somewhat unexpectedly that whenever a general Bernstein-type maximal inequality holds for partial sums of a sequence of random variables, a maximal form of the inequality is also valid.

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Péter Kevei. David M. Mason. "A note on a maximal Bernstein inequality." Bernoulli 17 (3) 1054 - 1062, August 2011. https://doi.org/10.3150/10-BEJ304

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Published: August 2011
First available in Project Euclid: 7 July 2011

zbMATH: 1225.60032
MathSciNet: MR2817617
Digital Object Identifier: 10.3150/10-BEJ304

Keywords: Bernstein inequality , dependent sums , maximal inequality , Mixing , partial sums

Rights: Copyright © 2011 Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability

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