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Q139Section III (Statistics)139 of 190

A recursively-defined process can also be a martingale, but adding a deterministic drift breaks it

Let Y1,Y2,…Y_1,Y_2,\dots be a sequence of independent random variables with mean zero and let Fn=σ(Y1,…,Yn)\mathbf F_n=\sigma(Y_1,\dots,Y_n). Define Xn=∑k=1nYkX_n=\sum_{k=1}^nY_k; W1=Y1W_1=Y_1 and Wn+1=Wn+Yn+1Wn2W_{n+1}=W_n+Y_{n+1}W_n^2; and Tn=∑k=1n(Yk+1)T_n=\sum_{k=1}^n(Y_k+1). Then:

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