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This paper introduces a new stochastic process, a collection of U-statistics indexed by a family of symmetric kernels. Conditions are found for the uniform almost-sure convergence of a sequence of such processes. Rates of convergence are obtained. An application to cross-validation in density estimation is given. The proofs adapt methods from the theory of empirical processes.
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