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Convergence in Distribution

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This chapter discusses the basic notions of convergence in distribution. Given a sequence of random variables, when do their distributions converge in a useful way to a limit?

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Resnick, S.I. (2005). Convergence in Distribution. In: A Probability Path. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1818-0_8

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