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A universal result in almost sure central limit theory

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  • Berkes, István
  • Csáki, Endre

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The discovery of the almost sure central limit theorem (Brosamler, Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc. 104 (1988) 561-574; Schatte, Math. Nachr. 137 (1988) 249-256) revealed a new phenomenon in classical central limit theory and has led to an extensive literature in the past decade. In particular, a.s. central limit theorems and various related 'logarithmic' limit theorems have been obtained for several classes of independent and dependent random variables. In this paper we extend this theory and show that not only the central limit theorem, but every weak limit theorem for independent random variables, subject to minor technical conditions, has an analogous almost sure version. For many classical limit theorems this involves logarithmic averaging, as in the case of the CLT, but we need radically different averaging processes for 'more sensitive' limit theorems. Several examples of such a.s. limit theorems are discussed.

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  • Berkes, István & Csáki, Endre, 2001. "A universal result in almost sure central limit theory," Stochastic Processes and their Applications, Elsevier, vol. 94(1), pages 105-134, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:spapps:v:94:y:2001:i:1:p:105-134
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