Martingale difference sequence
In probability theory, a martingale difference sequence is related to the concept of the martingale. A stochastic series X is an MDS if its expectation with respect to the past is zero. Formally, consider an adapted sequence on a probability space. is an MDS if it satisfies the following two conditions:
for all. By construction, this implies that if is a martingale, then will be an MDS—hence the name.
The MDS is an extremely useful construct in modern probability theory because it implies much milder restrictions on the memory of the sequence than independence, yet most limit theorems that hold for an independent sequence will also hold for an MDS.
