Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2009
Convergence notions are used extensively in the areas of probability and statistics. Many times proofs can be simplified by considering an appropriate convergence structure on the space and using well-known results from the theory of convergence spaces; for example, compactness arguments are sometimes simplified by using a generalized Ascoli theorem in the convergence space setting. The theory of convergence spaces is also used to generalize some results in probability and statistics.