Asymptotic Tail Probability of Randomly Weighted Sums of Dependent Random Variables with Dominated Variation

This paper investigates the asymptotic behavior of tail probability of randomly weighted sums of dependent and real-valued random variables with dominated variation, where the weights form another sequence of nonnegative random variables. The result we obtain extends the corresponding result of Wang and Tang.

PRECISE RATES IN THE LAW OF THE ITERATED LOGARITHM FOR R/S STATISTICS

Let{Xn;n≥1}be a sequence of i.i.d, random variables with finite variance,Q（n）be the related R/S statistics. It is proved that lim ε↓0 ε^2 ∑n=1 ^8 n log n/1 P{Q（n）≥ε√2n log log n}=2/1 EY^2,where Y=sup0≤t≤1B（t）-inf0≤t≤sB（t）,and B（t） is a Brownian bridge.

PRECISE RATE IN THE LAW OF ITERATED LOGARITHM FOR ρ-MIXING SEQUENCE

Let {X,X n;n≥1} be a strictly stationary sequence of ρ-mixing random variables with mean zero and finite variance. Set S n=n k=1X k,M n=max k≤n｜S k｜,n≥1. Suppose lim n→∞ES2 n/n=∶σ2>0 and ∞n=1ρ 2/d(2n)<∞, where d=2,if -1<b<0 and d>2(b+1),if b≥0. It is proved that,for any b>-1, limε0ε 2(b+1)∞n=1(loglogn)bnlognP{M n≥εσ2nloglogn}= 2(b+1)πГ(b+3/2)∞k=0(-1)k(2k+1) 2b+2,where Г(·) is a Gamma function.

Asymptotic Results for Tail Probabilities of Sums of Dependent and Heavy-Tailed Random Variables

Abstract Let X1, X2,... be a sequence of dependent and heavy-tailed random variables with distributions F1, F2,.. on （-∞,∞）, and let T be a nonnegative integer-valued random variable independent of the sequence {Xk, k 〉 1}. In this framework, the asymptotic behavior of the tail probabilities of the quantities Sn = fi Xk and S（n） =∑ k=1 n 〉 1, and their randomized versions ST and S（τ） are studied. Some risk theory are presented. max Sk for 1〈k〈n applications to the

Upper tail probabilities of integrated Brownian motions

We obtain new upper tail probabilities of m-times integrated Brownian motions under the uniform norm and the Lp norm. For the uniform norm, Talagrand's approach is used, while for the Lp norm, Zolotare's approach together with suitable metric entropy and the associated small ball probabilities are used. This proposed method leads to an interesting and concrete connection between small ball probabilities and upper tail probabilities(large ball probabilities) for general Gaussian random variables in Banach spaces. As applications,explicit bounds are given for the largest eigenvalue of the covariance operator, and appropriate limiting behaviors of the Laplace transforms of m-times integrated Brownian motions are presented as well.

Precise Rates in the Law of the Logarithm for the Moment Convergence in Hilbert Spaces

Let （X, Xn; n ≥1） be a sequence of i.i.d, random variables taking values in a real separable Hilbert space （H, ｜｜·｜｜） with covariance operator ∑. Set Sn = X1 ＋ X2 ＋ ... ＋ Xn, n≥ 1. We prove that, for b 〉 -1, lim ε→0 ε^2（b＋1） ∞ ∑n=1 （logn）^b/n^3/2 E{｜｜Sn｜｜-σε√nlogn}=σ^-2（b＋1）/（2b＋3）（b＋1） B｜｜Y｜^2b＋3holds if EX=0,and E｜｜X｜｜^2（log｜｜x｜｜）^3bv（b＋4）〈∞ where Y is a Gaussian random variable taking value in a real separable Hilbert space with mean zero and covariance operator ∑, and σ^2 denotes the largest eigenvalue of ∑.

Strong Convergence for Weighted Sums of Negatively Associated Arrays

Let {Xni} be an array of rowwise negatively associated random variables and Tnk=k∑i=1 i^a Xni for a ≥ -1, Snk =∑｜i｜≤k Ф（i/nη）1/nη Xni for η∈（0,1],where Ф is some function. The author studies necessary and sufficient conditions of ∞∑n=1 AnP（max 1≤k≤n｜Tnk｜〉εBn）〈∞ and ∞∑n=1 CnP（max 0≤k≤mn｜Snk｜〉εDn）〈∞ for all ε 〉 0, where An, Bn, Cn and Dn are some positive constants, mn ∈ N with mn /nη →∞. The results of Lanzinger and Stadtmfiller in 2003 are extended from the i.i.d, case to the case of the negatively associated, not necessarily identically distributed random variables. Also, the result of Pruss in 2003 on independent variables reduces to a special case of the present paper; furthermore, the necessity part of his result is complemented.

Random difference equations with subexponential innovations

We consider the random difference equations S =_d(X + S)Y and T =_dX + TY, where =_ddenotes equality in distribution, X and Y are two nonnegative random variables, and S and T on the right hand side are independent of(X, Y). Under the assumptions that X follows a subexponential distribution with a nonzero lower Karamata index, that Y takes values in [0, 1] and is not degenerate at 0 or 1, and that(X, Y) fulfills a certain dependence structure via the conditional tail probability of X given Y, we derive some asymptotic formulas for the tail probabilities of the weak solutions S and T to these equations. In doing so we also obtain some by products which are interesting in their own right.

Complete Moment and Integral Convergence for Sums of Negatively Associated Random Variables

For a sequence of identically distributed negatively associated random variables {Xn; n ≥ 1} with partial sums Sn = ∑i=1^n Xi, n ≥ 1, refinements are presented of the classical Baum-Katz and Lai complete convergence theorems. More specifically, necessary and sufficient moment conditions are provided for complete moment convergence of the form ∑n≥n0 n^r-2-1/pq anE（max1≤k≤n｜Sk｜^1/q-∈bn^1/qp）^＋〈∞to hold where r 〉 1, q 〉 0 and either n0 = 1,0 〈 p 〈 2, an = 1,bn = n or n0 = 3,p = 2, an = 1 （log n） ^1/2q, bn=n log n. These results extend results of Chow and of Li and Spataru from the indepen- dent and identically distributed case to the identically distributed negatively associated setting. The complete moment convergence is also shown to be equivalent to a form of complete integral convergence.

Precise Asymptotics in the Baum-Katz and Davis Laws of Large Numbers of ρ-mixing Sequences

Let {X,Xn;n ≥ 1} be a strictly stationary sequence of ρ-mixing random variables with mean zeros and finite variances. Set Sn =∑k=1^n Xk, Mn=maxk≤n｜Sk｜,n≥1.Suppose limn→∞ESn^2/n=：σ^2〉0 and ∑n^∞=1 ρ^2/d（2^n）〈∞,where d=2 if 1≤r〈2 and d〉r if r≥2.We prove that if E｜X｜^r 〈∞,for 1≤p〈2 and r〉p,then limε→0ε^2（r-p）/2-p ∑∞n=1 n^r/p-2 P{Mn≥εn^1/p}=2p/r-p ∑∞k=1（-1）^k/（2k＋1）^2（r-p）/（2-p）E｜Z｜^2（r-p）/2-p,where Z has a normal distribution with mean 0 and variance σ^2.

On the Rates of the Other Law of the Logarithm

Let X, X1, X2,… be i.i.d, random variables, and set Sn =X1＋…＋Xn,Mn=maxk≤n｜Sk｜,n≥1.Let an=o（√log n）.By using the strong approximation, we prove that, if EX = 0,