## Electronic Journal of Probability

### A sequential empirical CLT for multiple mixing processes with application to $\mathcal{B}$-geometrically ergodic Markov chains

#### Abstract

We investigate the convergence in distribution of sequential empirical processes of dependent data indexed by a class of functions F. Our technique is suitable for processes that satisfy a multiple mixing condition on a space of functions which differs from the class F. This situation occurs in the case of data arising from dynamical systems or Markov chains, for which the Perron-Frobenius or Markov operator, respectively, has a spectral gap on a restricted space. We provide applications to iterative Lipschitz models that contract on average.

#### Article information

Source
Electron. J. Probab., Volume 19 (2014), paper no. 87, 26 pp.

Dates
Accepted: 20 September 2014
First available in Project Euclid: 4 June 2016

Permanent link to this document
https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465065729

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/EJP.v19-3216

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR3263644

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
1302.60047

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

#### Citation

Dehling, Herold; Durieu, Olivier; Tusche, Marco. A sequential empirical CLT for multiple mixing processes with application to $\mathcal{B}$-geometrically ergodic Markov chains. Electron. J. Probab. 19 (2014), paper no. 87, 26 pp. doi:10.1214/EJP.v19-3216. https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ejp/1465065729

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