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Strong laws for weighted sums of i.i.d. random variables

Author(s): Guang-hui Cai
Journal: Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc. 12 (2006), 29-36.
MSC (2000): Primary 60F15
Posted: March 6, 2006
MathSciNet review: 2218628
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Abstract: Strong laws are established for linear statistics that are weighted sums of a random sample. We show extensions of the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong laws under certain moment conditions on both the weights and the distribution. The result obtained extends and sharpens the result of Sung.


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Additional Information:

Guang-hui Cai
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Zhejiang Gongshang University, Hangzhou 310035, P. R. China
Email: cghzju@163.com

DOI: 10.1090/S1079-6762-06-00157-0
PII: S 1079-6762(06)00157-0
Keywords: Almost sure convergence, Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund strong laws
Received by editor(s): February 24, 2005
Posted: March 6, 2006
Additional Notes: The author would like to thank an anonymous referee for his/her valuable comments.
Communicated by: Mark Freidlin
Copyright of article: Copyright 2006, American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain after 28 years from publication.




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