The strong law of large numbers for extended negatively dependent random variables

Yiqing Chen*, Anyue Chen, Kai W. Ng

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Abstract

A sequence of random variables is said to be extended negatively dependent (END) if the tails of its finite-dimensional distributions in the lower-left and upper-right corners are dominated by a multiple of the tails of the corresponding finite-dimensional distributions of a sequence of independent random variables with the same marginal distributions. The goal of this paper is to establish the strong law of large numbers for a sequence of END and identically distributed random variables. In doing so we derive some new inequalities of large deviation type for the sums of END and identically distributed random variables being suitably truncated. We also show applications of our main result to risk theory and renewal theory.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)908-922
Number of pages15
JournalJournal of Applied Probability
Volume47
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Asymptotics
  • Borel-Cantelli lemma
  • Lower/upper extended negative dependence
  • Renewal counting process
  • Strong law of large numbers
  • Truncation

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