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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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18<br />

• Order <strong>in</strong> probability.<br />

— If <br />

<br />

→ 0thenwesaythat = ( ).<br />

— = ( )if is ‘bounded <strong>in</strong> probability’:<br />

For any there is an = ()<br />

and an = () such that implies<br />

(| | ≤ ) ≥ 1 − . Equivalently,<br />

lim →∞ (| | ≤ ) = 1. Note that<br />

lim →∞ lim →∞ (| | ≤ ) = 1 is<br />

not enough — = ∼ ( 1) satisfies<br />

this but is not (1). Why not?<br />

• In particular, if ∼ ( ), then:<br />

— = −1 P <br />

=1 ,where = (‘ experiment<br />

is a success’) ∼ (1), and so<br />

ˆ = → [ 1 ]= by the WLLN.<br />

(Bernoulli’s Law of Large Numbers). Thus<br />

ˆ − =( − ) → 0, hence is (1).

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