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Atlas.TheoryOfProbability.code.Portmanteau

If the CDF of a probability measure μ is continuous at x, then μ assigns zero mass to the singleton {x}. Continuity of the CDF at x corresponds to absence of an atom at x.

If the CDF of a probability measure μ is continuous at x, then the boundary frontier (Iic x) = {x} is μ-null. This is the form needed for the Portmanteau theorem.

For a probability measure ν on , the mass of a half-open interval (a, b] equals F(b) - F(a) (cast to ℝ≥0), where F is the CDF of ν.

The set of continuity points of the CDF of a probability measure is dense in . This follows from the fact that a monotone function has only countably many discontinuities.

Portmanteau theorem (weak convergence via bounded continuous functions). A sequence of probability measures μₙ on converges weakly to μ if and only if ∫ f dμₙ → ∫ f dμ for every bounded continuous function f : ℝ →ᵇ ℝ.