Syllabus for Statistics 581, Autumn 1996

1. Modes of convergence (5 weeks)
   1. Convergence in distribution (refs)
   2. Convergence in probability (refs)
   3. Almost sure convergence (refs)
   4. The Skorokhod construction (refs)
   5. Edgeworth expansions (refs)
   6. Saddlepoint approximations (refs)
   
   
2. Asymptotics of likelihood (5 weeks)
   1. Consistency (refs)
   2. Asymptotic normality (refs)
   3. Barndorff-Nielsen's formula (refs)
   4. Asymptotic testing (refs)(We probably won't get to this section)
   
   
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