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A Lévy process $(X_t{)}_{t\ge 0}$ starts at zero, has independent and stationary increments, is stochastically continuous, and is taken with càdlàg sample paths. Thus for $0\le t_0<\cdots <t_n$, the increments $X_{t_j}-X_{t_{j-1}}$ are independent, and the law of $X_{s+t}-X_s$ depends only on $t$.

Write $s={\sigma }_Y{\sigma }_Z$ and $W=YZ-\mathbb{E}(YZ)$. The variables $Y$ and $Z$ need not be independent random variables. Part (d) and the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality imply, for every integer $q\ge 2$,Also $|\mathbb{E}(YZ)|\le s$ by Cauchy-Schwarz, because $\mathbb{E}{Y}^2\le {\sigma }_Y^2$ and $\mathbb{E}{Z}^2\le {\sigma }_Z^2$. Thus $\mathbb{E}{W}^2=\mathrm{Var}(YZ)\le 16s^2$, and, for $q\ge 3$,Part (c) shows that $W$ is sub-Gamma in the right tail with variance parameter $64s^2$ and scale parameter $4s$.

If $\mathbb{E}(YZ)\ge 0$, then $W_{+}\le (YZ{)}_{+}\le |YZ|$. Consequentlywhile $\mathbb{E}{W}^2\le 16s^2$. Another application of part (c) gives the improved variance parameter $16{\sigma }_Y^2{\sigma }_Z^2$ and scale parameter $2{\sigma }_Y{\sigma }_Z$.

A linear estimator in nonparametric regression at $x_0$ has the form ${\hat{m}}_n(x_0)={\sum }_i{W}_i(x_0)Y_i$, where the weights may depend on the design, $x_0$, $p$, $h$, and $K$, but not on the responses. Putand define the local polynomial Gram matrixWhen ${\lambda }_0>0$, the weighted least squares normal equations have the unique solutionTherefore ${\hat{m}}_n(x_0)={\sum }_i{W}_i{Y}_i$, where the effective kernel weight is

The identityshows that these weights exactly reproduce at $x_0$ every multivariate polynomial of total degree at most $p$. This is the required polynomial reproduction property of local polynomial regression.

Only grid points with $\Vert x_i-x_0{\Vert }_{\infty }\le h$ have nonzero weight. There are at most $(2n_{1}h+1{)}^d\le (4n_{1}h{)}^d=4^{d}n{h}^d$ such points because $n_{1}h\ge 1/2$. On this support,so the operator norm bound $\Vert B_n^{-1}{\Vert }_{\mathrm{op}}={\lambda }_0^{-1}$ givesBecause the errors are independent random variables with the stated variance bounds,Thus ${\gamma }_1=d$.

Let $T_{x_0}$ be the Multivariate Taylor polynomial of $m$ at $x_0$ through total degree ${\beta }_0$. The assumed Hölder continuity of the derivatives andgive the Taylor remainder boundPolynomial reproduction cancels $T_{x_0}$ in the bias. The same support count and weight bound giveConsequentlyso ${\gamma }_2=\beta$.

Under the $p$-biased product measure ${\mu }_p$ on $\{-1,1{\}}^n$, the coordinates are independent random variables with $\mathbb{P}(x_i=-1)=p$ and $\mathbb{P}(x_i=1)=1-p$. Writing $\mu =1-2p$, $\sigma =2\sqrt{p(1-p)}$, and ${\varphi }_i=(x_i-\mu )/\sigma$, the products ${\varphi }_S={\prod }_{i\in S}{\varphi }_i$ form the $p$-biased Fourier basis.

An encryption scheme has perfect secrecy when the ciphertext and plaintext are independent random variables, so observing the ciphertext does not change the plaintext's probability distribution.

For a nonnegative integer-valued random variable $X$, its probability generating function isThe generating function of a sum of independent random variables is the product of their generating functions.

For independent random variables with a common law, $L_n={\min }_{j\le n}{X}_j$ satisfies $L_{n+1}=\min (L_n,X_{n+1})$. The next-state law therefore depends on the past only through $L_n$.

If $L_j=d{P}_j/dQ$ and the nonnegative mixture weights sum to one, the likelihood ratio of the mixture model is $L={\sum }_j{w}_j{L}_j$. Expanding ${\mathbb{E}}_Q{L}^2-1$ proves the displayed chi-squared divergence identity. For independent random variables sampled from a fixed component, one-observation cross moments multiply across observations. The component is drawn once for the whole sample; redrawing it per observation gives a different mixture model.

For $d$ independent symmetric walks on $\mathbb{Z}$, the probability that all are at the origin at time $2n$ isThe Borel-Cantelli lemmas therefore show that simultaneous returns occur only finitely often almost surely when $d\ge 3$.

A stochastic block model assigns each vertex of a graph to a class and, conditional on those classes, makes distinct edges independent random variables whose probabilities depend only on the classes of their endpoints.

A randomized stopping time $\tau$ is a strong stationary time for a Markov chain with stationary distribution $\pi$ when $X_{\tau }$ has distribution $\pi$ and is independent of $\tau$. Equivalently,

The chain rule for information entropy and conditioning reduces entropy givewith equality exactly when $X$ and $Y$ are independent.

For a sequence of finite real random variables, ${\mathrm{limsup}}_n{n}^{-1}{\sum }_{j=1}^n{X}_j$ is measurable with respect to its tail sigma-algebra: deleting finitely many summands changes each sample mean by a quantity tending to zero. When the random variables are independent random variables, the Kolmogorov zero-one law makes every finite such limit constant almost surely.

For a nonnegative function $Z$ of independent random variables, entropy is at most the sum of its conditional coordinate entropies. This tensorization is a basic step of the entropy method.

For a finite set of primes choose $0<g(p)<1$, put $k(p)=g(p)/(1-g(p))$, and let $W={\prod }_p(1+k(p))$. Give each squarefree integer $d$ on these primes probability $k(d)/W$. Inclusion of each prime is represented by a Bernoulli random variable with parameter $g(p)$; these are independent random variables, so $\mathbb{E}[\log d]={\sum }_{p}g(p)\log p$. If this is at most $\theta \log L$ with $0<\theta <1$, the Markov inequality givesThis turns a full Euler product into a lower bound for the truncated normalizing sum of a Selberg sieve.

An unbiased likelihood estimator has expectation equal to the likelihood function at each parameter. A pseudo-marginal algorithm requires this estimator to be nonnegative. Importance sampling provides $\hat{L}=M^{-1}{\sum }_j\ell (F_j)p_{\theta }(F_j)/g_{\theta }(F_j)$ for independent random variables $F_j\sim g_{\theta }$, provided the proposal covers the target support. Relative variance affects the mixing time even though unbiasedness guarantees the correct marginal target.

Two square-integrable random variables $X,Y$ are uncorrelated when $\mathrm{Cov}(X,Y)=0$. Independent random variables with finite second moments are uncorrelated, but the converse generally fails.

For a weakly self-bounding function $Z=f(X_1,\dots ,X_n)$ of independent random variables, the coordinatewise variance inequality giveswhere $Z_i=f_i(X^{(i)})$.

A white noise sequence has zero mean, a common finite variance and zero autocovariance at every nonzero lag. This requires uncorrelated random variables, rather than independent random variables.