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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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