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Asymptotic Methods in Statistical Inference - Statistics Centre

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23<br />

• First an application. Let 2 be the sample variance.<br />

Note<br />

⎡<br />

⎤<br />

2 =<br />

<br />

2<br />

⎣P<br />

<br />

− 1 <br />

− ¯ 2 ⎦ <br />

which by the WLLN and the ‘arithmetic’ above<br />

<br />

→ [ 2 ] − [] 2 = 2 Thus the ‘t-statistic’<br />

used to make <strong>in</strong>ferences about without requir<strong>in</strong>g<br />

knowledge of is<br />

√ ³<br />

¯ − ´<br />

=<br />

= · <br />

→ Φ<br />

<br />

<br />

r<br />

by Slutsky’s Theorem, s<strong>in</strong>ce<br />

= <br />

2<br />

2<br />

(Why?)<br />

<br />

→ 1.

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