arXiv Open Access 2024

Distribution-uniform strong laws of large numbers

Ian Waudby-Smith Martin Larsson Aaditya Ramdas
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We revisit the question of whether the strong law of large numbers (SLLN) holds uniformly in a rich family of distributions, culminating in a distribution-uniform generalization of the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund SLLN. These results can be viewed as extensions of Chung's distribution-uniform SLLN to random variables with uniformly integrable $q^\text{th}$ absolute central moments for $0 < q < 2$. Furthermore, we show that uniform integrability of the $q^\text{th}$ moment is both sufficient and necessary for the SLLN to hold uniformly at the Marcinkiewicz-Zygmund rate of $n^{1/q - 1}$. These proofs centrally rely on novel distribution-uniform analogues of some familiar almost sure convergence results including the Khintchine-Kolmogorov convergence theorem, Kolmogorov's three-series theorem, a stochastic generalization of Kronecker's lemma, and the Borel-Cantelli lemmas. We also consider the non-identically distributed case.

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Ian Waudby-Smith

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Martin Larsson

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Aaditya Ramdas

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Waudby-Smith, I., Larsson, M., Ramdas, A. (2024). Distribution-uniform strong laws of large numbers. https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00713

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