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SOME REMARKS ON BLACKWELL–ROSS MARTINGALE INEQUALITIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 December 2006

Rasul A. Khan
Affiliation:
Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Under a suitable condition on the conditional moment generating function of the martingale differences, an exponential supermartingale is used to generalize certain martingale inequalities due to Blackwell and Ross.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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