Slutsky’s Lemma

Author

John Robin Inston

Published

September 25, 2026

0.1 Slutsky’s Lemma

In probability theory, Slutsky’s lemma extends some properties of algebraic operations on convergent sequences of real numbers to sequences of random variables.

Let \(X_{n}\) and \(Y_{n}\) be sequences of random variables where \(X_{n}\stackrel{\mathcal{D}}{\to}X\) and \(Y_{n}\stackrel{\mathbb{P}}{\to}c\) then the following results hold: 1. \(X_{n}+Y_{n}\stackrel{\mathcal{D}}{\to}X+c\) 2. \(X_{n}Y_{n}\stackrel{\mathcal{D}}{\to}Xc\) 3. \(\frac{X_{n}}{Y_{n}}\stackrel{\mathcal{D}}{\to} \frac{X}{c}\) given c is invertible.

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