Stochastic Bernstein polynomials: uniform convergence in probability with rates

Abstract

We introduce stochastic variants of the classical Bernstein polynomials associated with a continuous function f, built up from a general triangular array of random variables. We discuss the uniform convergence in probability of the approximation process that they represent, providing at the same time rates of convergence. In the particular case in which the triangular array of random variables consists of the uniform order statistics, we give a positive answer to a conjectured raised in Wu and Zhou (Adv. Comput. Math. 46, 8, 2020) about an exponential rate of convergence in probability.