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On complete moment convergence for arrays of rowwise negatively associated random variables

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In this note, a fairly general result, which extends and improves some previous known results, on the complete moment convergence for arrays of rowwise negatively associated random variables is established.

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The author is grateful to the referee for carefully reading the manuscript and for providing some comments and suggestions which led to improvements in the paper. The research of Y. Wu was supported by the Humanities and Social Sciences Foundation for the Youth Scholars of Ministry of Education of China (No.12YJCZH217) and the Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (No.1308085MA03).

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    Yongfeng Wu

  2. Center for Financial Engineering and School of Mathematical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China

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Wu, Y. On complete moment convergence for arrays of rowwise negatively associated random variables. RACSAM 108, 669–681 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13398-013-0133-7

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