# ON THE ALMOST SURE CONVERGENCE OF WEIGHTED SUMS OF NEGATIVELY ASSOCIATED RANDOM VARIABLES

• BAEK, JONG-IL (Division of Math. & Informational Statistics Institute of Basic Natural Science Wonkwang University) ;
• CHUNG, SUNG-MO (Division of Math. & Informational Statistics Institute of Basic Natural Science Wonkwang University) ;
• SEO, HYE-YOUNG (Division of Math. & Informational Statistics Institute of Basic Natural Science Wonkwang University)
• Published : 2005.07.01

#### Abstract

Let ${X,\;X_n|n\;\geq\;1}$ be a sequence of identically negatively associated random variables under some conditions. We discuss strong laws of weighted sums for arrays of negatively associated random variables.

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