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Whittle type inequality for demisubmartingales

Author(s): B. L. S. Prakasa Rao
Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 130 (2002), 3719-3724.
MSC (2000): Primary 60E15
Posted: May 15, 2002
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Abstract: A Whittle type inequality for demisubmartingales is derived and a strong law of large numbers for functions of a demisubmartingale is obtained.


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Additional Information:

B. L. S. Prakasa Rao
Affiliation: Indian Statistical Institute, 7, SJSS Marg, New Delhi 110 016, India
Email: blsp@isid.ac.in

DOI: 10.1090/S0002-9939-02-06517-6
PII: S 0002-9939(02)06517-6
Keywords: Whittle's inequality, Kolmogorov's inequality, maximal inequality, Hajek-Renyi inequality, Dufresnoy's inequality, demisubmartingale, demimartingale, associated sequences, strong law of large numbers
Received by editor(s): June 15, 2001
Received by editor(s) in revised form: August 3, 2001
Posted: May 15, 2002
Communicated by: Claudia M. Neuhauser
Copyright of article: Copyright 2002, American Mathematical Society


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