The
course takes place in March-May 2017.
It is intended for PhD students and last year Master students. After having
taken the course, one should be able to
- explain the details of the proofs of the main theorems covered in the course,
especially the Functional Central Limit Theorem,
- solve the exercises given in the compendium,
- demonstrate understanding of the key concepts and ideas concerning the weak convergence
of probability measures, such as tightness and Skorokhod
convergence.
Lecturer and examiner: Serik
Sagitov
Key words: Functional central limit theorem, weak convergence in C[0,1], Skorokhod topology,
tightness in D[0,1].
Prerequisite courses: Integration theory, Foundations of probability.
Literature: Convergence of probability measures, 2nd ed. by Billingsley.
Lecture notes: can be downloaded from here. Course
digest: by O. Elias can be downloaded from here.
(You might also find useful my extended
lecture notes for another course: Stochastic
processes.)
Timetable: 7 lectures on Tuesdays 10.00-11.45 at MVH11. Schedule for coverage of the Lecture Notes:
Examination. Instructions for the
examination (a date to be fixed between you and me)
Lists of students
List-2017, List-2015,
List-2013
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