Etymology

Slutsky's theorem

Today it means: A theorem in probability theory that extends some properties of algebraic operations on convergent sequences of real numbers to sequences of random variables. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Russian mathematical statistician and economist Eugen E. Slutsky.

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