We derive a central limit theorem for triangular arrays of possibly nonstationary random variables satisfying a condition of weak dependence in the sense of Doukhan and Louhichi [Stoch. Proc. Appl. 84 (1999) 313–342]. The proof uses a new variant of the Lindeberg method: the behavior of the partial sums is compared to that of partial sums of dependent Gaussian random variables. We also discuss a few applications in statistics which show that our central limit theorem is tailor-made for statistics...

Gaussian Process models are often used for predicting and approximating expensive experiments. However, the number of observations required for building such models may become unrealistic when the input dimension increases. In oder to avoid the curse of dimensionality, a popular approach in multivariate smoothing is to make simplifying assumptions like additivity. The ambition of the present work is to give an insight into a family of covariance kernels that allows combining the features of Gaussian...

A nonstandard approach to change point estimation is presented in this paper. Three models with random coefficients and Bayesian approach are used for modelling the year average temperatures measured in Prague Klementinum. The posterior distribution of the change point and other parameters are estimated from the random samples generated by the combination of the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm and the Gibbs sampler.