Almost sure convergence

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Almost sure convergence is one of the 4 main modes of stochastic convergence.

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Definition

Important cases of almost sure convergence

If we flip a coin n times and record the percentage of times it comes up heads, the result will almost surely approach 50% as .

This is an example of the strong law of large numbers.

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