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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 1000yesIIT Kanpur

The Syllabus

  • Introduction to the course: A review of basic Probability and Measure Theoretic integration
  • Lp spaces (definition, properties as a Banach space, dual space)

  • Independence of Events and Random variables, Borel-Cantelli Lemma (second half)
  • Product measures (construction, integration, Fubini-Tonelli Theorem)
  • Almost sure convergence of sequences of Random variables (definition and examples)

  • Other modes of convergence of sequences of Random variables (convergence in probability, convergence in p-th mean, definition and examples)
  • Relations between various modes of convergence (examples and counter-examples)

  • Properties of various modes of convergence
  • Almost sure convergence of series of Random variables (Kolmogorov’s inequality)

  • Almost sure convergence of series of Random variables – continued (Kolmogorov’s Three series Theorem)
  • Law of Large numbers (Khinchin’s Weak law, Kolmogorov’s Strong law, applications)
  • Characteristic Functions (properties, Inversion formulae)

  • Weak convergence or convergence in distribution (definition and examples)
  • Equivalent conditions or formulations of weak convergence (Helly-Bray Theorem, Portmanteau Lemma, Levy’s Continuity Theorem)

  • Equivalent conditions or formulations of weak convergence – continued
  • Central Limit Theorem (Lindeberg-Levy CLT)

  • Central Limit Theorems (Lindeberg-Feller CLT, Lyapunov CLT)
  • Applications
  • Slutky’s Theorem, Delta Method, Comments on Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem and Berry-Esseen Theorem
  • Conclusion of the course

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