An example of a stationary, triplewise independent triangular array for which the CLT fails

Kantorovitz, Miriam

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An example of a stationary, triplewise independent triangular array for which the CLT fails

Date

2007

Authors

Kantorovitz, Miriam

Publisher

Elsevier

Abstract

We give an example of a stationary, triplewise independent triangular array of bounded random variables for which the central limit theorem fails. This example is motivated by a problem of sequence comparison in bioinformatics.