Probability Approximations using Stein's Method: Random Graphs, Markov Chains and Beyond

This site houses materials for the mini-course delivered by Fraser Daly at the LMS Undergraduate Summer School in August 2022.

Lecture notes

Please click here for lecture notes.

The folllowing resources are not used directly in the course, but may be useful as a starting point for anyone who wants to do some further reading:

Fundamentals of Stein's Method: 2011 survey paper by Nathan Ross
Stein's (Magic) Method: 2014 survey paper by Andrew Barbour and Louis Chen
A Short Survey of Stein's Method: 2014 survey paper by Sourav Chatterjee
Notes from an introductory lecture on Stein's method for graduate students I gave in 2013
Website cataloging developments in Stein's method, maintained by Yvik Swan
Website cataloging developments in the Malliavin-Stein method, maintained by Ivan Nourdin

Please send any comments or corrections to Fraser Daly: f(dot)daly(at)hw(dot)ac(dot)uk. Last updated 3 September 2022.