TY  - JOUR
Y1  - 2009///
SN  - 1350-7265
N2  - This paper deals with empirical processes of the type

[C_{n}(B)=\sqrt{n}\{\mu_{n}(B)-P(X_{n+1}\in B\mid X_{1},\ldots,X_{n})\},\]

where (Xn) is a sequence of random variables and ?n=(1/n)?i=1n?Xi the empirical measure. Conditions for supB|Cn(B)| to converge stably (in particular, in distribution) are given, where B ranges over a suitable class of measurable sets. These conditions apply when (Xn) is exchangeable or, more generally, conditionally identically distributed (in the sense of Berti et al. [Ann. Probab. 32 (2004) 2029?2052]). By such conditions, in some relevant situations, one obtains that $\sup_{B}|C_{n}(B)|\stackrel{P}{\rightarrow}0$ or even that $\sqrt{n}\sup_{B}|C_{n}(B)|$ converges a.s. Results of this type are useful in Bayesian statistics.

JF  - Bernoulli
SP  - 1351
A1  - Berti, Patrizia
A1  - Crimaldi, Irene
A1  - Pratelli, Luca
A1  - Rigo, Pietro
VL  - 15
PB  - Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
EP  - 1367
IS  - 4
UR  - http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.bj/1262962239
KW  - Bayesian predictive inference; central limit theorem; conditional identity in distribution; empirical distribution; exchangeability; predictive distribution; stable convergence
AV  - none
TI  - Rate of convergence of predictive distributions for dependent data
ID  - eprints980
ER  -