Let (omega, beta) be a measurable space, An in B a sub-sigma-field and µn a random probability measure, n = 1. In various frameworks, one looks for a probability P on B such that µn is a regular conditional distribution for P given An for all n. Conditions for such a P to exist are given. The...

An urn contains balls of d=2 colors. At each time n=1, a ball is drawn and then replaced together with a random number of balls of the same color. Let diag (An,1,...,An,d) be the n-th reinforce matrix. Assuming that EAn,j=EAn,1 for all n and j, a few central limit theorems (CLTs) are available...

Let be the space of real cadlag functions on with finite limits at ±[infinity], equipped with uniform distance, and let Xn be the empirical process for an exchangeable sequence of random variables. If regarded as a random element of , Xn can fail to converge in distribution. However, in this...

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For an exchangeable sequence of random variables, almost surely, the difference between the empirical and the predictive distribution functions converges to zero uniformly.

Let be a filtration, {Xn} an adapted sequence of real random variables, and {[alpha]n} a predictable sequence of non-negative random variables with [alpha]10. Set and define the random distribution functions and . Under mild assumptions on {[alpha]n}, it is shown that , a.s. on the set {Fn or Bn...

Let $(S,\mathcal{B},\Gamma)$ and $(T,\mathcal{C},Q)$ be probability spaces, with $Q$ nonatomic, and $\mathcal{H}=\{H\in\mathcal{C}:Q(H)0\}$. In some economic models, the following conditional law of large numbers (LLN) is requested. There are a probability space $(\Omega,\mathcal{A},P)$ and a...

In various frameworks, to assess the joint distribution of a k-dimensional random vector X=(X1,…,Xk), one selects some putative conditional distributions Q1,…,Qk. Each Qi is regarded as a possible (or putative) conditional distribution for Xi given (X1,…,Xi−1,Xi+1,…,Xk). The Qi are...