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Strong laws are established for linear statistics that are weighted sums of an negatively associated (NA) random sample. The results obtained not only generalize the results of Sung (Stat. Probab. Lett. 52:413–419, 2001) to NA random variables, but also extend and sharpen them.
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Cai, Gh. Strong laws for weighted sums of NA random variables. Metrika 68, 323–331 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-007-0160-5
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