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On weak convergence of empirical processes for random number of independent stochastic vectors

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Pranab Kumar Sen
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Abstract

By the use of a semi-martingale property of the Kolmogorov supremum, the results of Pyke (6) on the weak convergence of the empirical process with random sample size are simplified and extended to the case of p(≥1)-dimensional stochastic vectors.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1973

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