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On the complete convergence of sums of negatively associated random variables

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This paper extends results on complete convergence in the law of large numbers for subsequences to the case of negatively associated nonidentically distributed random variables.

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Translated fromMatematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 68, No. 3, pp. 411–420, September, 2000.

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Mikusheva, A.E. On the complete convergence of sums of negatively associated random variables. Math Notes 68, 355–362 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02674559

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