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The theory of decoupling aims at reducing the level of dependence in certain problems by means of inequalities that compare the original sequence to one involving independent random variables. It is therefore important to have information on results dealing with functionals of independent random variables.
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de la Peña, V.H., Giné, E. (1999). Sums of Independent Random Variables. In: Decoupling. Probability and its Applications. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0537-1_1
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