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2015 Subgaussian concentration inequalities for geometrically ergodic Markov chains
Jérôme Dedecker, Sébastien Gouëzel
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 20: 1-12 (2015). DOI: 10.1214/ECP.v20-3966

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We prove that an irreducible aperiodic Markov chain is geometrically ergodic if and only if any separately bounded functional of the stationary chain satisfies an appropriate subgaussian deviation inequality from its mean.

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Jérôme Dedecker. Sébastien Gouëzel. "Subgaussian concentration inequalities for geometrically ergodic Markov chains." Electron. Commun. Probab. 20 1 - 12, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1214/ECP.v20-3966

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Accepted: 19 September 2015; Published: 2015
First available in Project Euclid: 7 June 2016

zbMATH: 1329.60251
MathSciNet: MR3407208
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/ECP.v20-3966

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