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Let $\xi_{tn}(\theta),t=1,\dots,n$ be a real-valued martingale difference array indexed by a parameter $\theta \in \Theta \subset R$, where the set $\Theta$ is compact. Now, for all fixed $\theta \in \Theta$, the law of large numbers,

$\sum_{t=1}^n \xi_{tn} (\theta) \rightarrow 0$ in probability,

is assumed to hold. Then, what conditions make the following UNIFORM law of large numbers hold?

$\sup_{\theta \in \Theta} | \sum_{t=1}^n \xi_{tn}(\theta) | \rightarrow 0$ in probability.

Are there any articles or books about the result?

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  • $\begingroup$ How is supposed $\xi_{tn}(\theta)$ behave when $\theta$ changes? $\endgroup$ Feb 9, 2013 at 10:19
  • $\begingroup$ For all $\theta \in \Theta$, $\xi_{tn} (\theta)$ is assumed martingale difference. $\endgroup$
    – fkh
    Feb 10, 2013 at 3:38

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Even if $\xi$'s are independent (a specific case of your martingale-difference stitation), uniform LLN sometimes holds and sometimes it does not. This type of questions has been studied in Machine learning and, specifically, in Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory. The Glivenko-Cantelli theorem (see wikipedia) describes one situation where the convergence is uniform. More general results can be formulated in terms of VC (Vapnik-Chervonenkis) classes. Perhaps some literature is available for martingales, too.

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An extension of the uniform Glivenko-Cantelli notion to martingale differences can be found here: www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~rakhlin/papers/emp_proc_dep.pdf

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