A more general definition of MTP2 (multivariate total positivity of order 2) probability measure is given, without assuming the existence of a density. Under this definition the class of MTP2 measures is proved to be closed under weak convergence. Characterizations of the MTP2 property are proved under this more general definition. Then a precise definition of conditionally increasing measure i...

Let {vij}, i, j = 1, 2, . . . , be i.i.d. symmetric random variables with E(v 11) < ∞, and for each n let Mn = 1 sVnV T n , where Vn = (vij), i = 1, 2, . . . , n, j = 1, 2, . . . , s = s(n), and n/s → y > 0 as n → ∞. Denote by OnΛnO n the spectral decomposition of Mn. Define X ∈ D[0, 1] by Xn(t) = √ n 2 ∑[nt] i=1(y 2 i − 1 n), where (y1, y2, . . . , yn) = O (± 1 √ n ,± 1 √ n , . . . ,± 1 √ n ) ...

In this paper, we consider both local and global convergence of the Newton algorithm to solve nonlinear problems when GMRES is used to invert the Jacobian at each Newton iteration. Under weak assumptions, we give a suucient condition for an inexact solution of GMRES to be a descent direction in order to apply a backtracking technique. Moreover, we extend this result to a nite diierence scheme c...

In this paper the classical Portmanteau theorem which provides equivalent conditions of weak convergence of sequence of probability measures is extended on the space of the sequence of probability measures induced by random sets.

We study the robustness of interim correlated rationalizability to perturbations of higher-order beliefs. We introduce a new metric topology on the universal type space, called uniform-weak topology, under which two types are close if they have similar first-order beliefs, attach similar probabilities to other players having similar first-order beliefs, and so on, where the degree of similarity...

This text contains my lecture notes for the graduate course “Weak Convergence” given in September-October 2013 and then in March-May 2015. The course is based on the book Convergence of Probability Measures by Patrick Billingsley, partially covering Chapters 1-3, 5-9, 12-14, 16, as well as appendices. In this text the formula label (∗) operates locally. The visible theorem labels often show the...