A Theorem on Uniform Convergence of Stochastic Functions with Applications,

In a variety of statistical problems one needs to manipulate a sequence of stochastic functions involving some unknown parameters. The asymptotic behavior of the estimated parameters often depends on the asymptotic properties of such functions. Especially, the consistency of the estimated parameters follows from the uniform convergence of the sequence of stochastic functions. A theorem on uniform convergence of a sequence of vector valued random functions is presented. The forms of these functions are very general and the assumptions are rather natural. If the sequence of random functions is generated by a sequence of random vectors, these random vectors are only required to be independently distributed and can be of different dimensions. As applications, we consider the consistency of the estimated regression parameters in logistic regression and in M-estimation in a linear model.