Bahadur Representation for U-Quantiles of Dependent Data

U-quantiles are applied in robust statistics, like the Hodges-Lehmann estimator of location for example. They have been analyzed in the case of independent random variables with the help of a generalized Bahadur representation. Our main aim is to extend these results to U-quantiles of strongly mixing random variables and functionals of absolutely regular sequences. We obtain the central limit theorem and the law of the iterated logarithm for U-quantiles as straightforward corollaries. Furthermore, we improve the existing result for sample quantiles of mixing data

U-Processes, U-Quantile Processes and Generalized Linear Statistics of Dependent Data

Generalized linear statistics are an unifying class that contains U-statistics, U-quantiles, L-statistics as well as trimmed and winsorized U-statistics. For example, many commonly used estimators of scale fall into this class. GL-statistics only have been studied under independence; in this paper, we develop an asymptotic theory for GL-statistics of sequences which are strongly mixing or L^1 near epoch dependent on an absolutely regular process. For this purpose, we prove an almost sure approximation of the empirical U-process by a Gaussian process. With the help of a generalized Bahadur representation, it follows that such a strong invariance principle also holds for the empirical U-quantile process and consequently for GL-statistics. We obtain central limit theorems and laws of the iterated logarithm for U-processes, U-quantile processes and GL-statistics as straightforward corollaries.Comment: 24 page

Law of the Iterated Logarithm for U-Statistics of Weakly Dependent Observations

The law of the iterated logarithm for partial sums of weakly dependent processes was intensively studied by Walter Philipp in the late 1960s and 1970s. In this paper, we aim to extend these results to nondegenerate U-statistics of data that are strongly mixing or functionals of an absolutely regular process.Comment: typos corrrecte

Convergence of U-statistics indexed by a random walk to stochastic integrals of a Levy sheet

We establish limit theorems for U-statistics indexed by a random walk on Z^d and we express the limit in terms of some Levy sheet Z(s,t). Under some hypotheses, we prove that the limit process is Z(t,t) if the random walk is transient or null-recurrent ant that it is some stochastic integral with respect to Z when the walk is positive recurrent. We compare our results with results for random walks in random scenery.Comment: 38 page