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Past exam of the probability course of the University of Oxford 2021 1 b ii Solution by
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The definition of convergence in distribution gives at each continuity point of . We must handle a moving argument rather than assume this convergence is uniform.
A cumulative distribution function has at most countably many discontinuities: each is a jump of positive size, and there are at most jumps of size at least , since their sizes sum to at most one. Thus we can choose continuity points with and . For fixed , eventually . The monotonicity of each cumulative distribution function impliesFirst let , using the definition of convergence in distribution at . Then let , using continuity at :No result relating different convergence of random variables has been assumed.
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