(1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, 500 046, India
Abstract:
Some properties of conditionally independent random variables are studied. Conditional versions of generalized Borel-Cantelli
lemma, generalized Kolmogorov’s inequality and generalized Hájek-Rényi inequality are proved. As applications, a conditional
version of the strong law of large numbers for conditionally independent random variables and a conditional version of the
Kolmogorov’s strong law of large numbers for conditionally independent random variables with identical conditional distributions
are obtained. The notions of conditional strong mixing and conditional association for a sequence of random variables are
introduced. Some covariance inequalities and a central limit theorem for such sequences are mentioned.