Probability, Statistics, and Stochastic Processes
4.1 Introduction 271 4.2 The Law of Large Numbers 272 4.3 The Central Limit Theorem 276 4.3.1 The Delta Method 281 4.4 Convergence in Distribution 283 4.4.1 Discrete Limits 283 4.4.2 Continuous Limits 285 5 Simulation 289 5.1 Introduction 289 5.2 Random-Number Generation 290 5.3 Simulation of Discrete Distributions 291
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