On the almost sure convergence, of order \(\alpha\) in the sense of Césaro, \(0<\alpha<1\), for independent and identically distributed random variables. (Q1095489): Difference between revisions

We prove the following theorem: Given \(0<\alpha \leq 1\), the (C,\(\alpha)\)- means of a sequence of i.i.d. random variables \(X_ n\) converge a.s. iff \(E| X_ n| ^{1/\alpha}<\infty.\) For \(<\alpha \leq 1\) and \(0<\alpha <\) this result is essentially known. We give here a proof of the case \(\alpha =\); an important tool is a theorem of \textit{P. L. Hsu} and \textit{H. Robbins} [Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 33, 25-31 (1947; Zbl 0030.20101)].