Functional convergence of stochastic integrals with application to statistical inference

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The main purpose of this paper is to supply some generic conditions which guarantee the weak convergence of some stochastic sums or integrals of the type \[ \iint_{0<s<t<1} f_n(\beta,s,t)\,dU_n(s)\,dV_n(t) \] towards \[ \int_{0<s<t<1} f(\beta,s,t)\,dB_s dW_t, \] provided the martingale differences \((U_n,V_n)\) converge in law to the Brownian \((B,W)\) and the smooth \(f_n(\beta,s,t)\) converge to the smooth \(f(\beta,s,t)\) (the smoothness is with respect to the parameter \(\beta\)). Typically, they consider martingale differences \((X_n,Y_n)\) which are bounded in \(L^2\) and such that \[ {1\over\sqrt{n}} \sum^{[ns]}_{i=0} (X_i,Y_i) \] converges in law to \((B_s,W_s)\), and sums of the type \[ {1\over n} \sum_{0\leq i<j\leq n} f_n\Biggl(\beta,{i-1\over n}, {j\over n}\Biggr) X_i Y_j, \] which, under convenient technical conditions, converge in law to \[ \int_{0<s<t\leq 1} f(\beta, s,t)\,dB_s\,dW_t. \] This type of result is then applied to some examples and, in particular, to several examples of weak convergence of (joint) likelihoods.











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