Michael J. Klass

Pseudo-maximization and self-normalized processes (2007)

De La Peña, Victor H., Klass, Michael J., Lai, Tze Leung

Self-normalized processes are basic to many probabilistic and statistical studies. They arise naturally in the the study of stochastic integrals, martingale inequalities and limit theorems,...

Pseudo-maximization and self-normalized processes ∗ (2007)

Michael J. Klass, Tze Leung Lai

Abstract: Self-normalized processes are basic to many probabilistic and statistical studies. They arise naturally in the the study of stochastic integrals, martingale inequalities and limit theorems,...

Self-normalized processes: exponential inequalities, moment bounds and iterated logarithm laws (2004)

De La Pena, Victor H., Klass, Michael J., Lai, Tze Leung

Self-normalized processes arise naturally in statistical applications. Being unit free, they are not affected by scale changes. Moreover, self-normalization often eliminates or weakens moment...

Self-normalized processes: exponential inequalities, moment bounds and iterated logarithm laws (2004)

De La Peña, Victor H., Klass, Michael J., Leung Lai, Tze

Self-normalized processes arise naturally in statistical applications. Being unit free, they are not affected by scale changes. Moreover, self-normalization often eliminates or weakens moment...

A symmetrization-desymmetrization procedure for uniformly good approximation of expectations involving arbitrary sums of generalized U-statistics (2000)

Klass, Michael J., Nowicki, Krzysztof

Let $\Phi$ be a symmetric function, nondecreasing on $[0,\infty)$ and satisfying a $\Delta_2$ growth condition, $(X_1, Y_1), (X_2, Y_2),\ldots,( X_n,Y_n)$ be independent random vectors such that (for...

An improvement of Hoffmann-Jørgensen’s inequality (2000)

Klass, Michael J., Nowicki, Krzysztof

Let $B$ be a Banach space and $\mathscr{F}$ any family of bounded linear functionals on $B$ of norm at most one. For $x\inB\set \|x\| = \sup_{\Lambda \in \mathscr{F}} \Lambda(x)(\|\cdot\|$ is at...

Approximation of partial sums of arbitrary i.i.d. random variables and the precision of the usual exponential upper bound (1997)

Hahn, Marjorie G., Klass, Michael J.

This paper quantifies the degree to which exponential bounds can be used to approximate tail probabilities of partial sums of arbitrary i.i.d. random variables. The introduction of a single...

Order of magnitude bounds for expectations of $\Delta_2$-functions of nonnegative random bilinear forms and generalized $U$-statistics (1997)

Klass, Michael J., Nowicki, Krzysztof

Let $X_1, Y_1, Y_2, \dots, X_n, Y_n$ be independent nonnegative rv’s and let $\{b_{ij}\}_{1 \leq i, j \leq n}$ be an array of nonnegative constants. We present a method of obtaining the order of...

Some best possible prophet inequalities for convex functions of sums of independent variates and unordered martingale difference sequences (1997)

Choi, K. P., Klass, Michael J.

Let $\Phi (\cdot)$ be a nondecreasing convex function on $[0, \infty)$. We show that for any integer $n \geq 1$ and real $a$, $$E \Phi ((M_n - a)^+) \leq 2E \Phi ((S_n - a)^+) - \Phi (0)$$ and...

The Grossman and Zhou investment strategy is not always optimal

Klass, Michael J., Nowicki, Krzysztof

Grossman and Zhou [1993. Optimal investment strategies for controlling drawdowns. Math. Finance 3, 241-276] proposed a strategy to maximize the asymptotic long-run growth rate of one's fortune Ft...

Ratio prophet inequalities for convex functions of partial sums

Klass, Michael J.

Prophet inequalities expectations involving maxima of partial sums

A denormalized U-statistic which cannot be decoupled from some associated stopping times

Klass, Michael J.

Let X1,X2,... be i.i.d. mean zero random variables and Sn=X1+...+Xn. For any stopping time T w.r.t. {Xn} let denote a copy of T which is independent of {Xn}. We exhibit a family of distributions and...