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Theorem 2.5.6. The strong law of large numbers. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. random variables with \( E\left| {X}_{i}\right| < \infty \) . Let \( E{X}_{i} = \mu \) and \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \ldots + {X}_{n} \) . Then \( {S}_{n}/n \rightarrow \mu \) a.s. as \( n \rightarrow \infty \) .
Proof. Let \( {Y}_{k} = {X}_{k}{1}_{\left( \left| {X}_{k}\right| \leq k\right) } \) and \( {T}_{n} = {Y}_{1} + \cdots + {Y}_{n} \) . By (a) in the proof of Theorem 2.4.1 it suffices to show that \( {T}_{n}/n \rightarrow \mu \) . Let \( {Z}_{k} = {Y}_{k} - E{Y}_{k} \), so \( E{Z}_{k} = 0 \) . Now \( \operatorname{var}\l...
Yes
Theorem 2.5.7. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. random variables with \( E{X}_{i} = 0 \) and \( E{X}_{i}^{2} = \) \( {\sigma }^{2} < \infty \) . Let \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \ldots + {X}_{n} \) . If \( \epsilon > 0 \) then\n\n\[ \n{S}_{n}/{n}^{1/2}{\left( \log n\right) }^{1/2 + \epsilon } \rightarrow 0\;\text{ ...
Proof. Let \( {a}_{n} = {n}^{1/2}{\left( \log n\right) }^{1/2 + \epsilon } \) for \( n \geq 2 \) and \( {a}_{1} > 0 \) .\n\n\[ \n\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{\infty }\operatorname{var}\left( {{X}_{n}/{a}_{n}}\right) = {\sigma }^{2}\left( {\frac{1}{{a}_{1}^{2}} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 2}}^{\infty }\frac{1}{n{\...
Yes
Theorem 2.5.9. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( E\left| {X}_{1}\right| = \infty \) and let \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \) \( \cdots + {X}_{n} \) . Let \( {a}_{n} \) be a sequence of positive numbers with \( {a}_{n}/n \) increasing. Then \( \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\left| {S}_{n}\ri...
Proof. Since \( {a}_{n}/n \uparrow ,{a}_{kn} \geq k{a}_{n} \) for any integer \( k \) . Using this and \( {a}_{n} \uparrow \) ,\n\n\[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{\infty }P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| \geq k{a}_{n}}\right) \geq \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{\infty }P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| \geq {a}_{kn}}\...
Yes
Lemma 2.6.1. If \( {\gamma }_{m + n} \geq {\gamma }_{m} + {\gamma }_{n} \) then as \( n \rightarrow \infty ,{\gamma }_{n}/n \rightarrow \mathop{\sup }\limits_{m}{\gamma }_{m}/m \) .
Proof. Clearly, \( \lim \sup {\gamma }_{n}/n \leq \sup {\gamma }_{m}/m \) . To complete the proof, it suffices to prove that for any \( m \) liminf \( {\gamma }_{n}/n \geq {\gamma }_{m}/m \) . Writing \( n = {km} + \ell \) with \( 0 \leq \ell < m \) and making repeated use of the hypothesis gives \( {\gamma }_{n} \geq ...
Yes
Lemma 2.6.2. If \( a > \mu \) and \( \theta > 0 \) is small then \( {a\theta } - \kappa \left( \theta \right) > 0 \) .
Proof. \( \kappa \left( 0\right) = \log \varphi \left( 0\right) = 0 \), so it suffices to show that (i) \( \kappa \) is continuous at 0,(ii) differentiable on \( \left( {0,{\theta }_{ + }}\right) \), and (iii) \( {\kappa }^{\prime }\left( \theta \right) \rightarrow \mu \) as \( \theta \rightarrow 0 \) . For then\n\n\[ ...
Yes
\[ \int {e}^{\theta x}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}\exp \left( {-{x}^{2}/2}\right) {dx} = \exp \left( {{\theta }^{2}/2}\right) \int {\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}\exp \left( {-{\left( x - \theta \right) }^{2}/2}\right) {dx} \]
The integrand in the last integral is the density of a normal distribution with mean \( \theta \) and variance 1, so \( \varphi \left( \theta \right) = \exp \left( {{\theta }^{2}/2}\right) ,\theta \in \left( {-\infty ,\infty }\right) \) . In this case, \( {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( \theta \right) /\varphi \left( \theta...
Yes
Example 2.6.2. Exponential distribution with parameter \( \lambda \) . If \( \theta < \lambda \)\n\n\[{\int }_{0}^{\infty }{e}^{\theta x}\lambda {e}^{-{\lambda x}}{dx} = \lambda /\left( {\lambda - \theta }\right)\]
\[{\varphi }^{\prime }\left( \theta \right) \varphi \left( \theta \right) = 1/\left( {\lambda - \theta }\right)\]\n\n\[{F}_{\theta }\left( x\right) = \frac{\lambda }{\lambda - \theta }{\int }_{0}^{x}{e}^{\theta y}\lambda {e}^{-{\lambda y}}{dy}\]\n\nis an exponential distribution with parameter \( \lambda - \theta \) an...
No
Example 2.6.3. Coin flips. \( P\left( {{X}_{i} = 1}\right) = P\left( {{X}_{i} = - 1}\right) = 1/2 \)
\[ \varphi \left( \theta \right) = \left( {{e}^{\theta } + {e}^{-\theta }}\right) /2 \] \[ {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( \theta \right) /\varphi \left( \theta \right) = \left( {{e}^{\theta } - {e}^{-\theta }}\right) /\left( {{e}^{\theta } + {e}^{-\theta }}\right) \] \( {F}_{\theta }\left( {\{ x\} }\right) /F\left( {\{ x\}...
Yes
Example 2.6.4. Perverted exponential. Let \( g\left( x\right) = C{x}^{-3}{e}^{-x} \) for \( x \geq 1, g\left( x\right) = 0 \) otherwise, and choose \( C \) so that \( g \) is a probability density. In this case,
\[ \varphi \left( \theta \right) = \int {e}^{\theta x}g\left( x\right) {dx} < \infty \] if and only if \( \theta \leq 1 \), and when \( \theta \leq 1 \), we have \[ \frac{{\varphi }^{\prime }\left( \theta \right) }{\varphi \left( \theta \right) } \leq \frac{{\varphi }^{\prime }\left( 1\right) }{\varphi \left( 1\right) ...
Yes
Theorem 2.6.3. Suppose in addition to (H1) and (H2) that there is a \( {\theta }_{a} \in \left( {0,{\theta }_{ + }}\right) \) so that \( a = {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( {\theta }_{a}\right) /\varphi \left( {\theta }_{a}\right) \) . Then, as \( n \rightarrow \infty \) ,\n\n\[ \n{n}^{-1}\log P\left( {{S}_{n} \geq {na}}\ri...
Proof. The fact that the limsup of the left-hand side \( \leq \) the right-hand side follows from (2.6.2). To prove the other inequality, pick \( \lambda \in \left( {{\theta }_{a},{\theta }_{ + }}\right) \), let \( {X}_{1}^{\lambda },{X}_{2}^{\lambda },\ldots \) be i.i.d. with distribution \( {F}_{\lambda } \) and let ...
Yes
Lemma 2.6.4. \( \frac{d{F}^{n}}{d{F}_{\lambda }^{n}} = {e}^{-{\lambda x}}\varphi {\left( \lambda \right) }^{n} \) .
Proof. We will prove this by induction. The result holds when \( n = 1 \) . For \( n > 1 \), we note that\n\n\[ \n{F}^{n} = {F}^{n - 1} * F\left( z\right) = {\int }_{-\infty }^{\infty }d{F}^{n - 1}\left( x\right) {\int }_{-\infty }^{z - x}{dF}\left( y\right) \n\]\n\n\[ \n= \int d{F}_{\lambda }^{n - 1}\left( x\right) \i...
Yes
Lemma 3.1.1. If \( {c}_{j} \rightarrow 0,{a}_{j} \rightarrow \infty \) and \( {a}_{j}{c}_{j} \rightarrow \lambda \) then \( {\left( 1 + {c}_{j}\right) }^{{a}_{j}} \rightarrow {e}^{\lambda } \).
Proof. As \( x \rightarrow 0,\log \left( {1 + x}\right) /x \rightarrow 1 \), so \( {a}_{j}\log \left( {1 + {c}_{j}}\right) \rightarrow \lambda \) and the desired result follows.
No
Theorem 3.1.3. The De Moivre-Laplace Theorem. If \( a < b \) then as \( m \rightarrow \infty \)\n\n\[ P\left( {a \leq {S}_{m}/\sqrt{m} \leq b}\right) \rightarrow {\int }_{a}^{b}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}{e}^{-{x}^{2}/2}{dx} \]
(To remove the restriction to even integers observe \( {S}_{{2n} + 1} = {S}_{2n} \pm 1 \) .) The last result is a special case of the central limit theorem given in Section 3.4, so further details are left to the reader.
No
Example 3.2.1. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( P\left( {{X}_{i} = 1}\right) = P\left( {{X}_{i} = - 1}\right) = 1/2 \) and let \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \) . Then Theorem 3.1.3 implies
\[ {F}_{n}\left( y\right) = P\left( {{S}_{n}/\sqrt{n} \leq y}\right) \rightarrow {\int }_{-\infty }^{y}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}{e}^{-{x}^{2}/2}{dx} \]
Yes
Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with distribution \( F \) . The Glivenko-Cantelli theorem (Theorem 2.4.7) implies that for almost every \( \omega \) ,
\[ {F}_{n}\left( y\right) = {n}^{-1}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{1}_{\left( {X}_{m}\left( \omega \right) \leq y\right) } \rightarrow F\left( y\right) \text{ for all }y \]
Yes
Example 3.2.3. Let \( X \) have distribution \( F \) . Then \( X + 1/n \) has distribution
\[ {F}_{n}\left( x\right) = P\left( {X + 1/n \leq x}\right) = F\left( {x - 1/n}\right) \] As \( n \rightarrow \infty ,{F}_{n}\left( x\right) \rightarrow F\left( {x - }\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{y \uparrow x}}F\left( y\right) \) so convergence only occurs at continuity points.
Yes
Birthday problem. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be independent and uniformly distributed on \( \{ 1,\ldots, N\} \), and let \( {T}_{N} = \min \left\{ {n : {X}_{n} = {X}_{m}}\right. \) for some \( \left. {m < n}\right\} \) .
\[ P\left( {{T}_{N} > n}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 2}}^{n}\left( {1 - \frac{m - 1}{N}}\right) \] When \( N = {365} \) this is the probability that two people in a group of size \( n \) do not have the same birthday (assuming all birthdays are equally likely). Using Exercise 3.1.1, it is easy to see that \[ ...
Yes
Lemma 3.2.1. \( {V}_{n + 1} \) has density function\n\n\[ \n{f}_{{V}_{n + 1}}\left( x\right) = \left( {{2n} + 1}\right) \left( \begin{matrix} {2n} \\ n \end{matrix}\right) {x}^{n}{\left( 1 - x\right) }^{n} \n\]
Proof. There are \( {2n} + 1 \) ways to pick the observation that falls at \( x \), then we have to pick \( n \) indices for observations \( < x \), which can be done in \( \left( \begin{matrix} {2n} \\ n \end{matrix}\right) \) ways. Once we have decided on the indices that will land \( < x \) and \( > x \), the probab...
Yes
Theorem 3.2.2. If \( {F}_{n} \Rightarrow {F}_{\infty } \) then there are random variables \( {Y}_{n},1 \leq n \leq \infty \), with distribution \( {F}_{n} \) so that \( {Y}_{n} \rightarrow {Y}_{\infty } \) a.s.
Proof. Let \( \Omega = \left( {0,1}\right) ,\mathcal{F} = \) Borel sets, \( P = \) Lebesgue measure, and let \( {Y}_{n}\left( x\right) = \) \( \sup \left\{ {y : {F}_{n}\left( y\right) < x}\right\} \) . By Theorem 1.2.2, \( {Y}_{n} \) has distribution \( {F}_{n} \) . We will now show that \( {Y}_{n}\left( x\right) \righ...
Yes
Theorem 3.2.3. \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) if and only if for every bounded continuous function \( g \) we have \( \operatorname{Eg}\left( {X}_{n}\right) \rightarrow \operatorname{Eg}\left( {X}_{\infty }\right) \) .
Proof. Let \( {Y}_{n} \) have the same distribution as \( {X}_{n} \) and converge a.s. Since \( g \) is continuous \( g\left( {Y}_{n}\right) \rightarrow g\left( {Y}_{\infty }\right) \) a.s. and the bounded convergence theorem implies\n\n\[ \n{Eg}\left( {X}_{n}\right) = {Eg}\left( {Y}_{n}\right) \rightarrow {Eg}\left( {...
Yes
Theorem 3.2.4. Continuous mapping theorem. Let \( g \) be a measurable function and \( {D}_{g} = \{ x : g \) is discontinuous at \( x\} \) . If \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) and \( P\left( {{X}_{\infty } \in {D}_{g}}\right) = 0 \) then \( g\left( {X}_{n}\right) \Rightarrow g\left( X\right) \) . If in addition...
Proof. Let \( {Y}_{n}{ = }_{d}{X}_{n} \) with \( {Y}_{n} \rightarrow {Y}_{\infty } \) a.s. If \( f \) is continuous then \( {D}_{f \circ g} \subset {D}_{g} \) so \( P\left( {{Y}_{\infty } \in {D}_{f \circ g}}\right) = 0 \) and it follows that \( f\left( {g\left( {Y}_{n}\right) }\right) \rightarrow f\left( {g\left( {Y}_...
Yes
Theorem 3.2.5. The following statements are equivalent: (i) \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \)\n\n(ii) For all open sets \( G,\lim \mathop{\inf }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}P\left( {{X}_{n} \in G}\right) \geq P\left( {{X}_{\infty } \in G}\right) \) .\n\n(iii) For all closed sets \( K,\lim \mathop{\sup }\limit...
Proof. We will prove four things and leave it to the reader to check that we have proved the result given above.\n\n(i) implies (ii): Let \( {Y}_{n} \) have the same distribution as \( {X}_{n} \) and \( {Y}_{n} \rightarrow {Y}_{\infty } \) a.s. Since \( G \) is open\n\n\[ \mathop{\liminf }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty...
No
Theorem 3.2.6. Helly’s selection theorem. For every sequence \( {F}_{n} \) of distribution functions, there is a subsequence \( {F}_{n\left( k\right) } \) and a right continuous nondecreasing function \( F \) so that \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{k \rightarrow \infty }}{F}_{n\left( k\right) }\left( y\right) = F\left( y\ri...
Proof. The first step is a diagonal argument. Let \( {q}_{1},{q}_{2},\ldots \) be an enumeration of the rationals. Since for each \( k,{F}_{m}\left( {q}_{k}\right) \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \) for all \( m \), there is a sequence \( {m}_{k}\left( i\right) \rightarrow \infty \) that is a subsequence of \( {m}_...
Yes
Every subsequential limit is the distribution function of a probability measure if and only if the sequence \( {F}_{n} \) is \( \mathbf{{tight}} \), i.e., for all \( \epsilon > 0 \) there is an \( {M}_{\epsilon } \) so that \[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}1 - {F}_{n}\left( {M}_{\epsilon }\right) + ...
Proof. Suppose the sequence is tight and \( {F}_{n\left( k\right) }{ \Rightarrow }_{v}F \) . Let \( r < - {M}_{\epsilon } \) and \( s > {M}_{\epsilon } \) be continuity points of \( F \) . Since \( {F}_{n}\left( r\right) \rightarrow F\left( r\right) \) and \( {F}_{n}\left( s\right) \rightarrow F\left( s\right) \), we h...
Yes
Theorem 3.2.8. If there is a \( \varphi \geq 0 \) so that \( \varphi \left( x\right) \rightarrow \infty \) as \( \left| x\right| \rightarrow \infty \) and\n\n\[ C = \mathop{\sup }\limits_{n}\int \varphi \left( x\right) d{F}_{n}\left( x\right) < \infty \]\n\nthen \( {F}_{n} \) is tight.
Proof. \( 1 - {F}_{n}\left( M\right) + {F}_{n}\left( {-M}\right) \leq C/\mathop{\inf }\limits_{{\left| x\right| \geq M}}\varphi \left( x\right) \)
Yes
Theorem 3.3.1. All characteristic functions have the following properties:\n\n(a) \( \varphi \left( 0\right) = 1 \) ,\n\n(b) \( \varphi \left( {-t}\right) = \overline{\varphi \left( t\right) } \) ,\n\n(c) \( \left| {\varphi \left( t\right) }\right| = \left| {E{e}^{itX}}\right| \leq E\left| {e}^{itX}\right| = 1 \)\n\n(d...
Proof. (a) is obvious. For (b) we note that\n\n\[ \varphi \left( {-t}\right) = E\left( {\cos \left( {-{tX}}\right) + i\sin \left( {-{tX}}\right) }\right) = E\left( {\cos \left( {tX}\right) - i\sin \left( {tX}\right) }\right) \]\n\n(c) follows from Exercise 1.6.2 since \( \varphi \left( {x, y}\right) = {\left( {x}^{2} +...
No
Theorem 3.3.2. If \( {X}_{1} \) and \( {X}_{2} \) are independent and have ch.f.’s \( {\varphi }_{1} \) and \( {\varphi }_{2} \) then \( {X}_{1} + {X}_{2} \) has ch.f. \( {\varphi }_{1}\left( t\right) {\varphi }_{2}\left( t\right) \) .
Proof.\n\n\[ E{e}^{{it}\left( {{X}_{1} + {X}_{2}}\right) } = E\left( {{e}^{{it}{X}_{1}}{e}^{{it}{X}_{2}}}\right) = E{e}^{{it}{X}_{1}}E{e}^{{it}{X}_{2}} \]\n\nsince \( {e}^{{it}{X}_{1}} \) and \( {e}^{{it}{X}_{2}} \) are independent.
Yes
If \( P\left( {X = 1}\right) = P\left( {X = - 1}\right) = 1/2 \) then
\[ E{e}^{itX} = \left( {{e}^{it} + {e}^{-{it}}}\right) /2 = \cos t \]
Yes
Example 3.3.2. Poisson distribution. If \( P\left( {X = k}\right) = {e}^{-\lambda }{\lambda }^{k}/k! \) for \( k = 0,1,2,\ldots \)
then\n\[\nE{e}^{itX} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k = 0}}^{\infty }{e}^{-\lambda }\frac{{\lambda }^{k}{e}^{itk}}{k!} = \exp \left( {\lambda \left( {{e}^{it} - 1}\right) }\right)\n\]
Yes
Example 3.3.3. Normal distribution\n\n\[ \text{Density}\;{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}\exp \left( {-{x}^{2}/2}\right) \]\n\n\[ \text{Ch.f.}\exp \left( {-{t}^{2}/2}\right) \]\n\nCombining this result with (e) of Theorem 3.3.1, we see that a normal distribution with mean \( \mu \) and variance \( {\sigma }^{2} \) has ch....
Physics Proof\n\n\[ \int {e}^{itx}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}{e}^{-{x}^{2}/2}{dx} = {e}^{-{t}^{2}/2}\int {\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1/2}{e}^{-{\left( x - it\right) }^{2}/2}{dx} \]\n\nThe integral is 1 since the integrand is the normal density with mean \( {it} \) and variance 1.\n\nMath Proof. Now that we have cheated ...
Yes
Example 3.3.4. Uniform distribution on \( \\left( {a, b}\\right) \)
Proof. Once you recall that \( {\\int }_{a}^{b}{e}^{\\lambda x}{dx} = \\left( {{e}^{\\lambda b} - {e}^{\\lambda a}}\\right) /\\lambda \) holds for complex \( \\lambda \), this is immediate.
No
Example 3.3.5. Triangular distribution\n\n\\[ \n\\text{Density}\\;1 - \\left| x\\right| \\;x \\in \\left( {-1,1}\\right) \n\\]\n\n\\[ \n\\text{Ch.f.}\\;2\\left( {1 - \\cos t}\\right) /{t}^{2} \n\\]
Proof. To see this, notice that if \\( X \\) and \\( Y \\) are independent and uniform on \\( \\left( {-1/2,1/2}\\right) \\) then \\( X + Y \\) has a triangular distribution. Using Example 3.3.4 now and Theorem 3.3.2 it follows that the desired ch.f. is\n\n\\[ \n{\\left\\{ \\left( {e}^{{it}/2} - {e}^{-{it}/2}\\right) /...
Yes
Example 3.3.6. Exponential distribution\n\n\[ \n\\begin{array}{ll} \\text{ Density } & {e}^{-x}\;x \\in \\left( {0,\\infty }\\right) \\\\ \\text{ Ch.f. } & 1/\\left( {1 - {it}}\\right) \\end{array} \n\]
Proof. Integrating gives\n\n\[ \n{\\int }_{0}^{\\infty }{e}^{itx}{e}^{-x}{dx} = {\\left. \\frac{{e}^{\\left( {{it} - 1}\\right) x}}{{it} - 1}\\right| }_{0}^{\\infty } = \\frac{1}{1 - {it}} \n\]\n\nsince \( \\exp \\left( {\\left( {{it} - 1}\\right) x}\\right) \\rightarrow 0 \) as \( x \\rightarrow \\infty \) .
Yes
Example 3.3.7. Bilateral exponential\n\n\\[ \n\\begin{array}{ll} \\text{ Density } & \\frac{1}{2}{e}^{-\\left| x\\right| } \\\\ \\text{ Ch.f. } & 1/\\left( {1 + {t}^{2}}\\right) \\end{array}x \\in \\left( {-\\infty ,\\infty }\\right) \n\\]
Proof This follows from Lemma 3.3.3 with \\( {F}_{1} \\) the distribution of an exponential random variable \\( X,{F}_{2} \\) the distribution of \\( - X \\), and \\( {\\lambda }_{1} = {\\lambda }_{2} = 1/2 \\) then using (b) of Theorem 3.3.1 we see the desired ch.f. is\n\n\\[ \n\\frac{1}{2\\left( {1 - {it}}\\right) } ...
Yes
Theorem 3.3.4. The inversion formula. Let \( \varphi \left( t\right) = \int {e}^{itx}\mu \left( {dx}\right) \) where \( \mu \) is a probability measure. If \( a < b \) then\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{T \rightarrow \infty }}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1}{\int }_{-T}^{T}\frac{{e}^{-{ita}} - {e}^{-{itb}}}{it}\varphi \left...
Proof. Let\n\n\[ {I}_{T} = {\int }_{-T}^{T}\frac{{e}^{-{ita}} - {e}^{-{itb}}}{it}\varphi \left( t\right) {dt} = {\int }_{-T}^{T}\int \frac{{e}^{-{ita}} - {e}^{-{itb}}}{it}{e}^{itx}\mu \left( {dx}\right) {dt} \]\n\nThe integrand may look bad near \( t = 0 \) but if we observe that\n\n\[ \frac{{e}^{-{ita}} - {e}^{-{itb}}...
Yes
Theorem 3.3.5. If \( \int \left| {\varphi \left( t\right) }\right| {dt} < \infty \) then \( \mu \) has bounded continuous density
\[ f\left( y\right) = \frac{1}{2\pi }\int {e}^{-{ity}}\varphi \left( t\right) {dt} \] Proof. As we observed in the proof of Theorem 3.3.4 \[ \left| \frac{{e}^{-{ita}} - {e}^{-{itb}}}{it}\right| = \left| {{\int }_{a}^{b}{e}^{-{ity}}{dy}}\right| \leq \left| {b - a}\right| \] so the integral in Theorem 3.3.4 converges abs...
Yes
Example 3.3.8. Polya's distribution\n\n\\[ \n\\begin{array}{ll} \\text{ Density } & \\left( {1 - \\cos x}\\right) /\\pi {x}^{2} \\\\ \\text{ Ch.f. } & {\\left( 1 - \\left| t\\right| \\right) }^{ + } \\end{array} \n\\]
Proof. Theorem 3.3.5 implies\n\n\\[ \n\\frac{1}{2\\pi }\\int \\frac{2\\left( {1 - \\cos s}\\right) }{{s}^{2}}{e}^{-{isy}}{ds} = {\\left( 1 - \\left| y\\right| \\right) }^{ + } \n\\]\n\nNow let \\( s = x, y = - t \\) .
Yes
Example 3.3.9. The Cauchy distribution\n\n\[ \n\\begin{array}{ll} \\text{ Density } & 1/\\pi \\left( {1 + {x}^{2}}\\right) \\\\ \\text{ Ch.f. } & \\exp \\left( {-\\left| t\\right| }\\right) \\end{array} \n\]
Proof. Theorem 3.3.5 implies\n\n\[ \n\\frac{1}{2\\pi }\\int \\frac{1}{1 + {s}^{2}}{e}^{-{isy}}{ds} = \\frac{1}{2}{e}^{-\\left| y\\right| } \n\]\n\nNow let \( s = x, y = - t \) and multiply each side by 2 .
Yes
Theorem 3.3.6. Continuity theorem. Let \( {\mu }_{n},1 \leq n \leq \infty \) be probability measures with ch.f. \( {\varphi }_{n} \) . (i) If \( {\mu }_{n} \Rightarrow {\mu }_{\infty } \) then \( {\varphi }_{n}\left( t\right) \rightarrow {\varphi }_{\infty }\left( t\right) \) for all \( t \) . (ii) If \( {\varphi }_{n}...
Proof. (i) is easy. \( {e}^{itx} \) is bounded and continuous so if \( {\mu }_{n} \Rightarrow {\mu }_{\infty } \) then Theorem 3.2.3 implies \( {\varphi }_{n}\left( t\right) \rightarrow {\varphi }_{\infty }\left( t\right) \) . To prove (ii), our first goal is to prove tightness. We begin with some calculations that may...
Yes
Lemma 3.3.7.\n\[ \left| {{e}^{ix} - \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 0}}^{n}\frac{{\left( ix\right) }^{m}}{m!}}\right| \leq \min \left( {\frac{{\left| x\right| }^{n + 1}}{\left( {n + 1}\right) !},\frac{2{\left| x\right| }^{n}}{n!}}\right) \]
Proof. Integrating by parts gives\n\n\[ {\int }_{0}^{x}{\left( x - s\right) }^{n}{e}^{is}{ds} = \frac{{x}^{n + 1}}{n + 1} + \frac{i}{n + 1}{\int }_{0}^{x}{\left( x - s\right) }^{n + 1}{e}^{is}{ds} \]\n\nWhen \( n = 0 \), this says\n\n\[ {\int }_{0}^{x}{e}^{is}{ds} = x + i{\int }_{0}^{x}\left( {x - s}\right) {e}^{is}{ds...
No
Theorem 3.3.8. If \( E{\left| X\right| }^{2} < \infty \) then\n\n\[ \varphi \left( t\right) = 1 + {itEX} - {t}^{2}E\left( {X}^{2}\right) /2 + o\left( {t}^{2}\right) \]
Proof. The error term is \( \leq {t}^{2}E\left( {\left| t\right| \cdot {\left| X\right| }^{3} \land 2{\left| X\right| }^{2}}\right) \) . The variable in parentheses is smaller than \( 2{\left| X\right| }^{2} \) and converges to 0 as \( t \rightarrow 0 \), so the desired conclusion follows from the dominated convergence...
Yes
Theorem 3.3.9. If \( \lim \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{h \downarrow 0}}\{ \varphi \left( h\right) - {2\varphi }\left( 0\right) + \varphi \left( {-h}\right) \} /{h}^{2} > - \infty \), then \( E{\left| X\right| }^{2} < \infty \) .
Proof. \( \left( {{e}^{ihx} - 2 + {e}^{-{ihx}}}\right) /{h}^{2} = - 2\left( {1 - \cos {hx}}\right) /{h}^{2} \leq 0 \) and \( 2\left( {1 - \cos {hx}}\right) /{h}^{2} \rightarrow {x}^{2} \) as \( h \rightarrow 0 \) so Fatou’s lemma and Fubini’s theorem imply\n\n\[ \n\int {x}^{2}{dF}\left( x\right) \leq 2\mathop{\liminf }...
Yes
Theorem 3.3.10. Polya’s criterion. Let \( \varphi \left( t\right) \) be real nonnegative and have \( \varphi \left( 0\right) = \) \( 1,\varphi \left( t\right) = \varphi \left( {-t}\right) \), and \( \varphi \) is decreasing and convex on \( \left( {0,\infty }\right) \) with\n\n\[ \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{t \downarrow 0}...
Proof. Let \( {\varphi }^{\prime } \) be the right derivative of \( \phi \), i.e.,\n\n\[ {\varphi }^{\prime }\left( t\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{h \downarrow 0}}\frac{\varphi \left( {t + h}\right) - \varphi \left( t\right) }{h} \]\n\nSince \( \varphi \) is convex this exists and is right continuous and increasing...
Yes
Example 3.3.10. \( \exp \left( {-{\left| t\right| }^{\alpha }}\right) \) is a characteristic function for \( 0 < \alpha < 2 \) .
Proof. A little calculus shows that for any \( \beta \) and \( \left| x\right| < 1 \)\n\n\[{\left( 1 - x\right) }^{\beta } = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 0}}^{\infty }\left( \begin{array}{l} \beta \\ n \end{array}\right) {\left( -x\right) }^{n}\]\n\nwhere\n\n\[ \left( \begin{array}{l} \beta \\ n \end{array}\right) = \fr...
Yes
Example 3.3.11. For some purposes, it is nice to have an explicit example of two ch.f.’s that agree on \( \left\lbrack {-1,1}\right\rbrack \) . From Example 3.3.8, we know that \( {\left( 1 - \left| t\right| \right) }^{ + } \) is the ch.f. of the density \( \left( {1 - \cos x}\right) /\pi {x}^{2} \) . Define \( \psi \l...
The Fourier series for \( \psi \) is\n\n\[ \psi \left( u\right) = \frac{1}{2} + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = - \infty }}^{\infty }\frac{2}{{\pi }^{2}{\left( 2n - 1\right) }^{2}}\exp \left( {i\left( {{2n} - 1}\right) {\pi u}}\right) \]\n\nThe right-hand side is the ch.f. of a discrete distribution with\n\n\[ P\left( {X =...
Yes
Theorem 3.3.11. If \( \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{k \rightarrow \infty }}{\mu }_{2k}^{1/{2k}}/{2k} = r < \infty \) then there is at most one d.f. \( F \) with \( {\mu }_{k} = \int {x}^{k}{dF}\left( x\right) \) for all positive integers \( k \) .
Proof. Let \( F \) be any d.f. with the moments \( {\mu }_{k} \) and let \( {\nu }_{k} = \int {\left| x\right| }^{k}{dF}\left( x\right) \) . The Cauchy-Schwarz inequality implies \( {\nu }_{{2k} + 1}^{2} \leq {\mu }_{2k}{\mu }_{{2k} + 2} \) so\n\n\[ \mathop{\limsup }\limits_{{k \rightarrow \infty }}\left( {\nu }_{k}^{1...
Yes
Theorem 3.4.1. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( E{X}_{i} = \mu \) , \( \operatorname{var}\left( {X}_{i}\right) = {\sigma }^{2} \in \left( {0,\infty }\right) \) . If \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \) then\n\n\[\n\left( {{S}_{n} - {n\mu }}\right) /\sigma {n}^{1/2} \Rightarrow \chi\n\]\n\nwhere ...
Proof By considering \( {X}_{i}^{\prime } = {X}_{i} - \mu \), it suffices to prove the result when \( \mu = 0 \) . From\n\nTheorem 3.3.8\n\[\n\varph
No
Theorem 3.3.8\n\[ \varphi \left( t\right) = E\exp \left( {{it}{X}_{1}}\right) = 1 - \frac{{\sigma }^{2}{t}^{2}}{2} + o\left( {t}^{2}\right) \]
so\n\[ E\exp \left( {{it}{S}_{n}/\sigma {n}^{1/2}}\right) = {\left( 1 - \frac{{t}^{2}}{2n} + o\left( {n}^{-1}\right) \right) }^{n} \]\n\nFrom Lemma 3.1.1 it should be clear that the last quantity \( \rightarrow \exp \left( {-{t}^{2}/2}\right) \) as \( n \rightarrow \infty \) , which with Theorem 3.3.6 completes the pro...
No
Theorem 3.4.2. If \( {c}_{n} \rightarrow c \in \mathbf{C} \) then \( {\left( 1 + {c}_{n}/n\right) }^{n} \rightarrow {e}^{c} \).
Proof. The proof is based on two simple facts:
No
Lemma 3.4.3. Let \( {z}_{1},\ldots ,{z}_{n} \) and \( {w}_{1},\ldots ,{w}_{n} \) be complex numbers of modulus \( \leq \theta \) .\n\nThen\n\[ \left| {\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{z}_{m} - \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{w}_{m}}\right| \leq {\theta }^{n - 1}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}\left| {{z}_{m...
Proof. The result is true for \( n = 1 \) . To prove it for \( n > 1 \) observe that\n\n\[ \left| {\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{z}_{m} - \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{w}_{m}}\right| \leq \left| {{z}_{1}\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 2}}^{n}{z}_{m} - {z}_{1}\mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 2}}^{n}{w}_{m}}\right...
Yes
Lemma 3.4.4. If \( b \) is a complex number with \( \left| b\right| \leq 1 \) then \( \left| {{e}^{b} - \left( {1 + b}\right) }\right| \leq {\left| b\right| }^{2} \) .
Proof. \( {e}^{b} - \left( {1 + b}\right) = {b}^{2}/2! + {b}^{3}/3! + {b}^{4}/4! + \ldots \) so if \( \left| b\right| \leq 1 \) then\n\n\[ \left| {{e}^{b} - \left( {1 + b}\right) }\right| \leq \frac{{\left| b\right| }^{2}}{2}\left( {1 + 1/2 + 1/{2}^{2} + \ldots }\right) = {\left| b\right| }^{2} \]\n
Yes
A roulette wheel has slots numbered 1-36 (18 red and 18 black) and two slots numbered 0 and 00 that are painted green. Players can bet \$1 that the ball will land in a red (or black) slot and win \$1 if it does. If we let \( {X}_{i} \) be the winnings on the \( i \) th play then \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) are i.i.d. ...
\[ E{X}_{i} = - 1/{19}\text{ and }\operatorname{var}\left( X\right) = E{X}^{2} - {\left( EX\right) }^{2} = 1 - {\left( 1/{19}\right) }^{2} = {0.9972} \] We are interested in \[ P\left( {{S}_{n} \geq 0}\right) = P\left( {\frac{{S}_{n} - {n\mu }}{\sigma \sqrt{n}} \geq \frac{-{n\mu }}{\sigma \sqrt{n}}}\right) \] Taking \(...
Yes
Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( P\left( {{X}_{i} = 0}\right) = P\left( {{X}_{i} = 1}\right) = \) \( 1/2 \) . If \( {X}_{i} = 1 \) indicates that a heads occured on the \( i \) th toss then \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \) is the total number of heads at time \( n \) .
\[ E{X}_{i} = 1/2\;\text{ and }\;\operatorname{var}\left( X\right) = E{X}^{2} - {\left( EX\right) }^{2} = 1/2 - 1/4 = 1/4 \] So the central limit theorem tells us \( \left( {{S}_{n} - n/2}\right) /\sqrt{n/4} \Rightarrow \chi \) . Our table of the normal distribution tells us that \[ P\left( {\chi > 2}\right) = 1 - {0.9...
Yes
To estimate \( P\left( {{S}_{16} = 8}\right) \) using the central limit theorem, we regard 8 as the interval \( \left\lbrack {{7.5},{8.5}}\right\rbrack \) . Since \( \mu = 1/2 \), and \( \sigma \sqrt{n} = 2 \) for \( n = {16} \)
\[ P\left( {\left| {{S}_{16} - 8}\right| \leq {0.5}}\right) = P\left( {\frac{\left| {S}_{n} - n\mu \right| }{\sigma \sqrt{n}} \leq {0.25}}\right) \] \[ \approx P\left( {\left| \chi \right| \leq {0.25}}\right) = 2\left( {{0.5987} - {0.5}}\right) = {0.1974} \] Even though \( n \) is small, this agrees well with the exact...
Yes
Let \( {Z}_{\lambda } \) have a Poisson distribution with mean \( \lambda \) . If \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) are independent and have Poisson distributions with mean 1, then \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \) has a Poisson distribution with mean \( n \) . Since \( \operatorname{var}\left( {X}_{i}\right) = 1 \...
\[ \left( {{S}_{n} - n}\right) /{n}^{1/2} \Rightarrow \chi \;\text{ as }n \rightarrow \infty \]
No
Pairwise independence is good enough for the strong law of large numbers (see Theorem 2.4.1). It is not good enough for the central limit theorem. Let \( {\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( P\left( {{\xi }_{i} = 1}\right) = P\left( {{\xi }_{i} = - 1}\right) = 1/2 \) . We will arrange things so that for \(...
\[ {S}_{{2}^{n}} = {\xi }_{1}\left( {1 + {\xi }_{2}}\right) \cdots \left( {1 + {\xi }_{n + 1}}\right) = \left\{ \begin{array}{ll} \pm {2}^{n} & \text{ with prob }{2}^{-n - 1} \\ 0 & \text{ with prob }1 - {2}^{-n} \end{array}\right. \] To do this we let \( {X}_{1} = {\xi }_{1},{X}_{2} = {\xi }_{1}{\xi }_{2} \), and for ...
Yes
Theorem 3.4.5. The Lindeberg-Feller theorem. For each \( n \), let \( {X}_{n, m},1 \leq m \leq \) \( n \), be independent random variables with \( E{X}_{n, m} = 0 \) . Suppose\n\n(i) \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}E{X}_{n, m}^{2} \rightarrow {\sigma }^{2} > 0 \)\n\n(ii) For all \( \epsilon > 0,\mathop{\lim }\lim...
Proof. Let \( {\varphi }_{n, m}\left( t\right) = E\exp \left( {{it}{X}_{n, m}}\right) ,{\sigma }_{n, m}^{2} = E{X}_{n, m}^{2} \) . By Theorem 3.3.6, it suffices to show that\n\n\[ \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{\varphi }_{n, m}\left( t\right) \rightarrow \exp \left( {-{t}^{2}{\sigma }^{2}/2}\right) \]\n\nLet \( {...
Yes
Example 3.4.6. Cycles in a random permutation and record values. Continuing the analysis of Examples 2.2.4 and 2.3.2, let \( {Y}_{1},{Y}_{2},\ldots \) be independent with \( P\left( {{Y}_{m} = 1}\right) = 1/m \), and \( P\left( {{Y}_{m} = 0}\right) = 1 - 1/m.E{Y}_{m} = 1/m \) and \( \operatorname{var}\left( {Y}_{m}\rig...
\[ {X}_{n, m} = \left( {{Y}_{m} - 1/m}\right) /{\left( \log n\right) }^{1/2} \] \( E{X}_{n, m} = 0,\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}E{X}_{n, m}^{2} \rightarrow 1 \), and for any \( \epsilon > 0 \) \[ \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}E\left( {{\left| {X}_{n, m}\right| }^{2};\left| {X}_{n, m}\right| > \epsilon }\righ...
Yes
Example 3.4.7. The converse of the three series theorem. Recall the set up of Theorem 2.5.4. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be independent, let \( A > 0 \), and let \( {Y}_{m} = {X}_{m}{1}_{\left( \left| {X}_{m}\right| \leq A\right) } \) . In order that \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 1}}^{\infty }{X}_{n} \) converges...
Proof. The necessity of the first condition is clear. For if that sum is infinite, \( P\left( {\left| {X}_{n}\right| > }\right. \) \( A \) i.o. \( ) > 0 \) and \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{n \rightarrow \infty }}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{X}_{m} \) cannot exist. Suppose next that the sum in (i) is finite but the...
Yes
Infinite variance. Suppose \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) are i.i.d. and have \( P\left( {{X}_{1} > }\right. \) \( x) = P\left( {{X}_{1} < - x}\right) \) and \( P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > x}\right) = {x}^{-2} \) for \( x \geq 1 \) .
\[ E{\left| {X}_{1}\right| }^{2} = {\int }_{0}^{\infty }{2xP}\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > x}\right) {dx} = \infty \]
Yes
Theorem 3.4.6. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. and \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \) . In order that there exist constants \( {a}_{n} \) and \( {b}_{n} > 0 \) so that \( \left( {{S}_{n} - {a}_{n}}\right) /{b}_{n} \Rightarrow \chi \), it is necessary and sufficient that
\[ {y}^{2}P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > y}\right) /E\left( {{\left| {X}_{1}\right| }^{2};\left| {X}_{1}\right| \leq y}\right) \rightarrow 0. \] A proof can be found in Gnedenko and Kolmogorov (1954), a reference that contains the last word on many results about sums of independent random variables.
Yes
Lemma 3.4.7. \( {h}_{n}\left( \epsilon \right) \rightarrow 0 \) for each fixed \( \epsilon > 0 \) so we can pick \( {\epsilon }_{n} \rightarrow 0 \) so that \( {h}_{n}\left( {\epsilon }_{n}\right) \rightarrow 0 \)
Proof. Let \( {N}_{m} \) be chosen so that \( {h}_{n}\left( {1/m}\right) \leq 1/m \) for \( n \geq {N}_{m} \) and \( m \rightarrow {N}_{m} \) is increasing. Let \( {\epsilon }_{n} = 1/m \) for \( {N}_{m} \leq n < {N}_{m + 1} \), and \( = 1 \) for \( n < {N}_{1} \) . When \( {N}_{m} \leq n < {N}_{m + 1},{\epsilon }_{n} ...
Yes
Theorem 3.4.8. Erdös-Kac central limit theorem. As \( n \rightarrow \infty \)\n\n\[ {P}_{n}\left( {m \leq n : g\left( m\right) - \log \log n \leq x{\left( \log \log n\right) }^{1/2}}\right) \rightarrow P\left( {\chi \leq x}\right) \]
Proof. We begin by showing that we can ignore the primes \
No
Theorem 3.4.9. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( E{X}_{i} = 0, E{X}_{i}^{2} = {\sigma }^{2} \), and \( E{\left| {X}_{i}\right| }^{3} = \) \( \rho < \infty \) . If \( {F}_{n}\left( x\right) \) is the distribution of \( \left( {{X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n}}\right) /\sigma \sqrt{n} \) and \( \mathcal{N}\lef...
Proof. Since neither side of the inequality is affected by scaling, we can suppose without loss of generality that \( {\sigma }^{2} = 1 \) . The first phase of the argument is to derive an inequality, Lemma 3.4.11, that relates the difference between the two distributions to the distance between their ch.f.'s. Polya's ...
No
Lemma 3.4.10. Let \( F \) and \( G \) be distribution functions with \( {G}^{\prime }\left( x\right) \leq \lambda < \infty \) . Let \( \Delta \left( x\right) = F\left( x\right) - G\left( x\right) ,\eta = \sup \left| {\Delta \left( x\right) }\right| ,{\Delta }_{L} = \Delta * {H}_{L} \), and \( {\eta }_{L} = \sup \left| ...
Proof. \( \Delta \) goes to 0 at \( \pm \infty, G \) is continuous, and \( F \) is a d.f., so there is an \( {x}_{0} \) with \( \Delta \left( {x}_{0}\right) = \eta \) or \( \Delta \left( {{x}_{0} - }\right) = - \eta \) . By looking at the d.f.’s of (-1) times the r.v.’s in the second case, we can suppose without loss o...
Yes
Lemma 3.4.11. Let \( {K}_{1} \) and \( {K}_{2} \) be d.f. with mean 0 whose ch.f. \( {\kappa }_{i} \) are integrable
Proof. Since the \( {\kappa }_{i} \) are integrable, the inversion formula, Theorem 3.3.4, implies that the density \( {k}_{i}\left( x\right) \) has\n\n\[ {k}_{i}\left( y\right) = {\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-1}\int {e}^{-{ity}}{\kappa }_{i}\left( t\right) {dt} \]\n\nSubtracting the last expression with \( i = 2 \) from th...
No
Theorem 3.5.1. Let \( \varphi \left( t\right) = E{e}^{itX} \) . There are only three possibilities.\n\n(i) \( \left| {\varphi \left( t\right) }\right| < 1 \) for all \( t \neq 0 \) .\n\n(ii) There is a \( \lambda > 0 \) so that \( \left| {\varphi \left( \lambda \right) }\right| = 1 \) and \( \left| {\varphi \left( t\ri...
Proof. We begin with (ii). It suffices to show that \( \left| {\varphi \left( t\right) }\right| = 1 \) if and only if \( P(X \in \) \( b + \left( {{2\pi }/t}\right) \mathbf{Z}) = 1 \) for some \( b \) . First, if \( P\left( {X \in b + \left( {{2\pi }/t}\right) \mathbf{Z}}\right) = 1 \) then\n\n\[ \varphi \left( t\right...
Yes
Theorem 3.5.2. Under the hypotheses above, as \( n \rightarrow \infty \)\n\n\[ \mathop{\sup }\limits_{{x \in {\mathcal{L}}_{n}}}\left| {\frac{{n}^{1/2}}{h}{p}_{n}\left( x\right) - n\left( x\right) }\right| \rightarrow 0 \]
Proof. Let \( Y \) be a random variable with \( P\left( {Y \in a + \theta \mathbf{Z}}\right) = 1 \) and \( \psi \left( t\right) = E\exp \left( {itY}\right) \) . It follows from part (iii) of Exercise 3.3.2 that\n\n\[ P\left( {Y = x}\right) = \frac{1}{{2\pi }/\theta }{\int }_{-\pi /\theta }^{\pi /\theta }{e}^{-{itx}}\ps...
Yes
Theorem 3.6.1. For each \( n \) let \( {X}_{n, m},1 \leq m \leq n \) be independent random variables with \( P\left( {{X}_{n, m} = 1}\right) = {p}_{n, m}, P\left( {{X}_{n, m} = 0}\right) = 1 - {p}_{n, m} \) . Suppose\n\n(i) \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{p}_{n, m} \rightarrow \lambda \in \left( {0,\infty }\righ...
First proof. Let \( {\varphi }_{n, m}\left( t\right) = E\left( {\exp \left( {{it}{X}_{n, m}}\right) }\right) = \left( {1 - {p}_{n, m}}\right) + {p}_{n, m}{e}^{it} \) and let \( {S}_{n} = \) \( {X}_{n,1} + \cdots + {X}_{n, n} \) . Then\n\n\[ E\exp \left( {{it}{S}_{n}}\right) = \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}\left( ...
Yes
In a calculus class with 400 students, the number of students who have their birthday on the day of the final exam has approximately a Poisson distribution with mean \( {400}/{365} = {1.096} \) . This means that the probability no one was born on that date is about \( {e}^{-{1.096}} = {0.334} \) .
Similar reasoning shows that the number of babies born on a given day or the number of people who arrive at a bank between 1:15 and 1:30 should have a Poisson distribution.
No
Lemma 3.6.2. If \( {\mu }_{1} \times {\mu }_{2} \) denotes the product measure on \( \mathbf{Z} \times \mathbf{Z} \) that has \( \left( {{\mu }_{1} \times }\right. \) \( \left. {\mu }_{2}\right) \left( {x, y}\right) = {\mu }_{1}\left( x\right) {\mu }_{2}\left( y\right) \) then\n\n\[ \begin{Vmatrix}{{\mu }_{1} \times {\...
Proof. \( 2\begin{Vmatrix}{{\mu }_{1} \times {\mu }_{2} - {\nu }_{1} \times {\nu }_{2}}\end{Vmatrix} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{x, y}}\left| {{\mu }_{1}\left( x\right) {\mu }_{2}\left( y\right) - {\nu }_{1}\left( x\right) {\nu }_{2}\left( y\right) }\right| \)\n\n\[ \leq \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{x, y}}\left| {{\mu }_{1}\l...
Yes
Lemma 3.6.3. If \( {\mu }_{1} * {\mu }_{2} \) denotes the convolution of \( {\mu }_{1} \) and \( {\mu }_{2} \), that is,\n\n\[ \n{\mu }_{1} * {\mu }_{2}\left( x\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{y}{\mu }_{1}\left( {x - y}\right) {\mu }_{2}\left( y\right) \n\]\n\nthen \( \begin{Vmatrix}{{\mu }_{1} * {\mu }_{2} - {\nu }_{1...
Proof. \( 2\begin{Vmatrix}{{\mu }_{1} * {\mu }_{2} - {\nu }_{1} * {\nu }_{2}}\end{Vmatrix} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{x}\left| {\mathop{\sum }\limits_{y}{\mu }_{1}\left( {x - y}\right) {\mu }_{2}\left( y\right) - \mathop{\sum }\limits_{y}{\nu }_{1}\left( {x - y}\right) {\nu }_{2}\left( y\right) }\right| \)\n\n\[ \n\leq \...
Yes
Lemma 3.6.4. Let \( \mu \) be the measure with \( \mu \left( 1\right) = p \) and \( \mu \left( 0\right) = 1 - p \) . Let \( \nu \) be a Poisson distribution with mean \( p \) . Then \( \parallel \mu - \nu \parallel \leq {p}^{2} \) .
Proof. \( 2\parallel \mu - \nu \parallel = \left| {\mu \left( 0\right) - \nu \left( 0\right) }\right| + \left| {\mu \left( 1\right) - \nu \left( 1\right) }\right| + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n \geq 2}}\nu \left( n\right) \n\n\[ \n= \left| {1 - p - {e}^{-p}}\right| + \left| {p - p{e}^{-p}}\right| + 1 - {e}^{-p}\left( {1 +...
Yes
Let \( \pi \) be a random permutation of \( \{ 1,2,\ldots, n\} \), let \( {X}_{n, m} = 1 \) if \( m \) is a fixed point ( 0 otherwise), and let \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{n,1} + \cdots + {X}_{n, n} \) be the number of fixed points. We want to compute \( P\left( {{S}_{n} = 0}\right) \).
Let \( {A}_{n, m} = \left\{ {{X}_{n, m} = 1}\right\} \). The inclusion-exclusion formula implies\n\n\[ P\left( {{ \cup }_{m = 1}^{n}{A}_{m}}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{m}P\left( {A}_{m}\right) - \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{\ell < m}}P\left( {{A}_{\ell } \cap {A}_{m}}\right) + \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{k < \ell < m}}P\le...
Yes
Coupon collector’s problem. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. uniform on \( \{ 1,2,\ldots, n\} \) and \( {T}_{n} = \inf \left\{ {m : \left\{ {{X}_{1},\ldots {X}_{m}}\right\} = \{ 1,2,\ldots, n\} }\right\} \) . Since \( {T}_{n} \leq m \) if and only if \( m \) balls fill up all \( n \) boxes, it follows from Th...
Proof. If \( r = n\log n + {nx} \) then \( n{e}^{-r/n} \rightarrow {e}^{-x} \).
No
Theorem 3.6.6. Let \( {X}_{n, m},1 \leq m \leq n \) be independent nonnegative integer valued random variables with \( P\left( {{X}_{n, m} = 1}\right) = {p}_{n, m}, P\left( {{X}_{n, m} \geq 2}\right) = {\epsilon }_{n, m} \) . (i) \( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}{p}_{n, m} \rightarrow \lambda \in \left( {0,\infty ...
Proof. Let \( {X}_{n, m}^{\prime } = 1 \) if \( {X}_{n, m} = 1 \), and 0 otherwise. Let \( {S}_{n}^{\prime } = {X}_{n,1}^{\prime } + \cdots + {X}_{n, n}^{\prime } \) . (i)-(ii) and Theorem 3.6.1 imply \( {S}_{n}^{\prime } \Rightarrow Z \) ,(iii) tells us \( P\left( {{S}_{n} \neq {S}_{n}^{\prime }}\right) \rightarrow 0 ...
No
Theorem 3.6.7. If (i)-(iv) hold then \( N\left( {0, t}\right) \) has a Poisson distribution with mean \( {\lambda t} \) .
Proof. Let \( {X}_{n, m} = N\left( {\left( {m - 1}\right) t/n,{mt}/n}\right) \) for \( 1 \leq m \leq n \) and apply Theorem 3.6.6.
No
A Poisson process on a measure space \( \left( {S,\mathcal{S},\mu }\right) \) is a random map \( m : \mathcal{S} \rightarrow \{ 0,1,\ldots \} \) that for each \( \omega \) is a measure on \( \mathcal{S} \) and has the following property: if \( {A}_{1},\ldots ,{A}_{n} \) are disjoint sets with \( \mu \left( {A}_{i}\righ...
Exercise 3.6.12 implies that if \( \mu \left( S\right) < \infty \) we can construct \( m \) by the following recipe: let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. elements of \( S \) with distribution \( \nu \left( \cdot \right) = \mu \left( \cdot \right) /\mu \left( S\right) \), let \( N \) be an independent Poisson rand...
No
Lemma 3.7.1. If \( {h}_{n}\left( \epsilon \right) \rightarrow g\left( \epsilon \right) \) for each \( \epsilon > 0 \) and \( g\left( \epsilon \right) \rightarrow g\left( 0\right) \) as \( \epsilon \rightarrow 0 \) then we can pick \( {\epsilon }_{n} \rightarrow 0 \) so that \( {h}_{n}\left( {\epsilon }_{n}\right) \righ...
Proof. Let \( {N}_{m} \) be chosen so that \( \left| {{h}_{n}\left( {1/m}\right) - g\left( {1/m}\right) }\right| \leq 1/m \) for \( n \geq {N}_{m} \) and \( m \rightarrow {N}_{m} \) is increasing. Let \( {\epsilon }_{n} = 1/m \) for \( {N}_{m} \leq n < {N}_{m + 1} \) and \( = 1 \) for \( n < {N}_{1} \) . When \( {N}_{m...
Yes
Theorem 3.7.2. Suppose \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) are i.i.d. with a distribution that satisfies\n\n(i) \( \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{x \rightarrow \infty }}P\left( {{X}_{1} > x}\right) /P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > x}\right) = \theta \in \left\lbrack {0,1}\right\rbrack \)\n\n(ii) \( P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > ...
Proof. It is not hard to see that (ii) implies\n\n\[ \n{nP}\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > {a}_{n}}\right) \rightarrow 1 \]\n\n(3.7.6)\n\nTo prove this, note that \( {nP}\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > {a}_{n}}\right) \leq 1 \) and let \( \epsilon > 0 \) . Taking \( x = {a}_{n}/\left( {1 + \epsilon }\right) \) and \( t...
Yes
Lemma 3.7.3. For any \( \delta > 0 \) there is \( C \) so that for all \( t \geq {t}_{0} \) and \( y \leq 1 \)\n\n\[ P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > {yt}}\right) /P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > t}\right) \leq C{y}^{-\alpha - \delta } \]
Proof. (ii) implies that as \( t \rightarrow \infty \)\n\n\[ P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > t/2}\right) /P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > t}\right) \rightarrow {2}^{\alpha } \]\n\nso for \( t \geq {t}_{0} \) we have\n\n\[ P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > t/2}\right) /P\left( {\left| {X}_{1}\right| > t}\right) \leq {2...
Yes
Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with a density that is symmetric about 0, and continuous and positive at 0 . We claim that\n\n\[ \frac{1}{n}\left( {\frac{1}{{X}_{1}} + \cdots + \frac{1}{{X}_{n}}}\right) \Rightarrow \text{a Cauchy distribution}\left( {\alpha = 1,\kappa = 0}\right) \]
To verify this, note that\n\n\[ P\left( {1/{X}_{i} > x}\right) = P\left( {0 < {X}_{i} < {x}^{-1}}\right) = {\int }_{0}^{{x}^{-1}}f\left( y\right) {dy} \sim f\left( 0\right) /x \] \nas \( x \rightarrow \infty \) . A similar calculation shows \( P\left( {1/{X}_{i} < - x}\right) \sim f\left( 0\right) /x \) so in (i) in Th...
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Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. with \( P\left( {{X}_{i} = 1}\right) = P\left( {{X}_{i} = - 1}\right) = 1/2 \), let \( {S}_{n} = {X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} \), and let \( \tau = \inf \left\{ {n \geq 1 : {S}_{n} = 1}\right\} \). Let \( {\tau }_{1},{\tau }_{2},\ldots \) be independent with the same distributio...
To prove the claim, note that in (i) in Theorem 3.7.2 holds with \( \theta = 1 \) and (ii) holds with \( \alpha = 1/2 \). The scaling constant \( {a}_{n} \sim C{n}^{2} \). Since \( \alpha < 1 \), Exercise 3.7.2 implies the centering constant is unnecessary.
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Assume \( n \) objects \( {X}_{n,1},\ldots ,{X}_{n, n} \) are placed independently and at random in \( \left\lbrack {-n, n}\right\rbrack \) . Let\n\n\[ \n{F}_{n} = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}\operatorname{sgn}\left( {X}_{n, m}\right) /{\left| {X}_{n, m}\right| }^{p}\n\]\n\nbe the net force exerted on 0 . We wil...
To do this, it is convenient to let \( {X}_{n, m} = n{Y}_{m} \) where the \( {Y}_{i} \) are i.i.d. on \( \left\lbrack {-1,1}\right\rbrack \) . Then\n\n\[ \n{F}_{n} = {n}^{-p}\mathop{\sum }\limits_{{m = 1}}^{n}\operatorname{sgn}\left( {Y}_{m}\right) /{\left| {Y}_{m}\right| }^{p}\n\]\n\nLetting \( {Z}_{m} = \operatorname...
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In the examples above, we have had \( {b}_{n} = 0 \) . To get a feel for the centering constants consider \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) i.i.d. with\n\n\[ P\left( {{X}_{i} > x}\right) = \theta {x}^{-\alpha }\;P\left( {{X}_{i} < - x}\right) = \left( {1 - \theta }\right) {x}^{-\alpha } \]\n\nwhere \( 0 < \alpha < 2 \) . In...
When \( \alpha < 1 \) the centering is the same size as the scaling and can be ignored. When \( \alpha > 1,{b}_{n} \sim {n\mu } \) where \( \mu = E{X}_{i} \) .
Yes
Theorem 3.7.4. \( Y \) is the limit of \( \left( {{X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{k} - {b}_{k}}\right) /{a}_{k} \) for some i.i.d. sequence \( {X}_{i} \) if and only if \( Y \) has a stable law.
Proof. If \( Y \) has a stable law we can take \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) i.i.d. with distribution \( Y \) . To go the other way, let\n\n\[ \n{Z}_{n} = \left( {{X}_{1} + \cdots + {X}_{n} - {b}_{n}}\right) /{a}_{n} \]\n\nand \( {S}_{n}^{j} = {X}_{\left( {j - 1}\right) n + 1} + \cdots + {X}_{jn} \) . A little arithmeti...
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The Holtsmark distribution. \( \left( {\alpha = 3/2,\kappa = 0}\right) \) . Suppose stars are distributed in space according to a Poisson process with density \( t \) and their masses are i.i.d. Let \( {X}_{t} \) be the \( x \) -component of the gravitational force at 0 when the density is \( t \) . A change of density...
If we imagine thinning the Poisson process by rolling an \( n \) -sided die, then Exercise 3.6.12 implies\n\n\[ \n{X}_{t}\overset{d}{ = }{X}_{t/n}^{1} + \cdots + {X}_{t/n}^{n} \n\]\n\nwhere the random variables on the right-hand side are independent and have the same distribution as \( {X}_{t/n} \) . It follows from Th...
No
Theorem 3.8.1. \( Z \) is a limit of sums of type \( \left( *\right) \) if and only if \( Z \) has an infinitely divisible distribution.
Proof. As remarked above, we only have to prove necessity. Write\n\n\[ \n{S}_{2n} = \left( {{X}_{{2n},1} + \cdots + {X}_{{2n}, n}}\right) + \left( {{X}_{{2n}, n + 1} + \cdots + {X}_{{2n},{2n}}}\right) \equiv {Y}_{n} + {Y}_{n}^{\prime } \n\]\n\nThe random variables \( {Y}_{n} \) and \( {Y}_{n}^{\prime } \) are independe...
Yes
Example 3.8.4. Compound Poisson distribution. Let \( {\xi }_{1},{\xi }_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. and \( N\left( \lambda \right) \) be an independent Poisson r.v. with mean \( \lambda \) . Then \( Z = {\xi }_{1} + \cdots + {\xi }_{N\left( \lambda \right) } \) has an infinitely divisible distribution.
For developments below, we would like to observe that if \( \varphi \left( t\right) = E\exp \left( {{it}{\xi }_{i}}\right) \) then\n\n\[ E\exp \left( {itZ}\right) = \mathop{\sum }\limits_{{n = 0}}^{\infty }{e}^{-\lambda }\frac{{\lambda }^{n}}{n!}\varphi {\left( t\right) }^{n} = \exp \left( {-\lambda \left( {1 - \varphi...
No
Theorem 3.8.2. Lévy-Khinchin Theorem. Z has an infinitely divisible distribution if and only if its characteristic function has\n\n\[ \log \varphi \left( t\right) = {ict} - \frac{{\sigma }^{2}{t}^{2}}{2} + \int \left( {{e}^{itx} - 1 - \frac{itx}{1 + {x}^{2}}}\right) \mu \left( {dx}\right) \]\n\nwhere \( \mu \) is a mea...
For a proof, see Breiman (1968), Section 9.5., or Feller II (1971), Section XVII.2. \( \mu \) is called the Lévy measure of the distribution.
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Theorem 3.8.3. Kolmogorov’s Theorem. Z has an infinitely divisible distribution with mean 0 and finite variance if and only if its ch.f. has\n\n\[ \log \varphi \left( t\right) = \int \left( {{e}^{itx} - 1 - {itx}}\right) {x}^{-2}\nu \left( {dx}\right) \]
Here the integrand is \( - {t}^{2}/2 \) at \( 0,\nu \) is called the canonical measure and \( \operatorname{var}\left( Z\right) = \) \( \nu \left( \mathbf{R}\right) \) .\n\nTo explain the formula, note that if \( {Z}_{\lambda } \) has a Poisson distribution with mean \( \lambda \n\n\[ E\exp \left( {{itx}\left( {{Z}_{\l...
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Theorem 3.9.1. The following statements are equivalent to \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) .
Proof. We will begin by showing that (i)-(vi) are equivalent.\n\n(i) implies (ii): Trivial.\n\n(ii) implies (iii): Let \( \rho \left( {x, K}\right) = \inf \{ \rho \left( {x, y}\right) : y \in K\} ,{\varphi }_{j}\left( r\right) = {\left( 1 - jr\right) }^{ + } \), and \( {f}_{j}\left( x\right) = \) \( {\varphi }_{j}\left...
Yes
Theorem 3.9.2. If \( {\mu }_{n} \) is tight, then there is a weakly convergent subsequence.
Proof. Let \( {F}_{n} \) be the associated distribution functions, and let \( {q}_{1},{q}_{2},\ldots \) be an enumeration of \( {\mathbf{Q}}^{d} = \) the points in \( {\mathbf{R}}^{d} \) with rational coordinates. By a diagonal argument like the one in the proof of Theorem 3.2.6, we can pick a subsequence so that \( {F...
No
Theorem 3.9.3. Inversion formula. If \( A = \left\lbrack {{a}_{1},{b}_{1}}\right\rbrack \times \ldots \times \left\lbrack {{a}_{d},{b}_{d}}\right\rbrack \) with \( \mu \left( {\partial A}\right) = 0 \) then\n\n\[ \mu \left( A\right) = \mathop{\lim }\limits_{{T \rightarrow \infty }}{\left( 2\pi \right) }^{-d}{\int }_{{\...
Proof. Fubini's theorem implies\n\n\[ {\int }_{{\left\lbrack -T, T\right\rbrack }^{d}}\int \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{d}{\psi }_{j}\left( {t}_{j}\right) \exp \left( {i{t}_{j}{x}_{j}}\right) \mu \left( {dx}\right) {dt} \]\n\n\[ = \int \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{d}{\int }_{-T}^{T}{\psi }_{j}\left( {t}_{j}\r...
Yes
Theorem 3.9.4. Convergence theorem. Let \( {X}_{n},1 \leq n \leq \infty \) be random vectors with ch.f. \( {\varphi }_{n} \) . A necessary and sufficient condition for \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) is that \( {\varphi }_{n}\left( t\right) \rightarrow \) \( {\varphi }_{\infty }\left( t\right) \) .
Proof. \( \exp \left( {{it} \cdot x}\right) \) is bounded and continuous, so if \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) then \( {\varphi }_{n}\left( t\right) \rightarrow {\varphi }_{\infty }\left( t\right) \) . To prove the other direction it suffices, as in the proof of Theorem 3.3.6, to prove that the sequence is tig...
Yes
Theorem 3.9.5. Cramér-Wold device. A sufficient condition for \( {X}_{n} \Rightarrow {X}_{\infty } \) is that \( \theta \cdot {X}_{n} \Rightarrow \theta \cdot {X}_{\infty } \) for all \( \theta \in {\mathbf{R}}^{d} \) .
Proof. The indicated condition implies \( E\exp \left( {{i\theta } \cdot {X}_{n}}\right) \rightarrow E\exp \left( {{i\theta } \cdot {X}_{\infty }}\right) \) for all \( \theta \in \) \( {\mathbf{R}}^{d} \) .
Yes
Theorem 3.9.6. The central limit theorem in \( {\mathbf{R}}^{d} \) . Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d. random vectors with \( E{X}_{n} = \mu \), and finite covariances\n\n\[ \n{\Gamma }_{ij} = E\left( {\left( {{X}_{n, i} - {\mu }_{i}}\right) \left( {{X}_{n, j} - {\mu }_{j}}\right) }\right) \n\]\n\nIf \( {S}_{n...
Proof. By considering \( {X}_{n}^{\prime } = {X}_{n} - \mu \), we can suppose without loss of generality that \( \mu = 0 \) . Let \( \theta \in {\mathbf{R}}^{d}.\theta \cdot {X}_{n} \) is a random variable with mean 0 and variance\n\n\[ \nE{\left( \mathop{\sum }\limits_{i}{\theta }_{i}{X}_{n, i}\right) }^{2} = \mathop{...
Yes
Theorem 4.1.2. For a random walk on \( \\mathbf{R} \), there are only four possibilities, one of which has probability one.
Proof. Theorem 4.1.1 implies \( \\lim \\sup {S}_{n} \) is a constant \( c \\in \\left\\lbrack {-\\infty ,\\infty }\\right\\rbrack \) . Let \( {S}_{n}^{\\prime } = {S}_{n + 1} - \) \( {X}_{1} \) . Since \( {S}_{n}^{\\prime } \) has the same distribution as \( {S}_{n} \), it follows that \( c = c - {X}_{1} \) . If \( c \...
Yes
Theorem 4.1.3. Let \( {X}_{1},{X}_{2},\ldots \) be i.i.d., \( {\mathcal{F}}_{n} = \sigma \left( {{X}_{1},\ldots ,{X}_{n}}\right) \) and \( N \) be a stopping time with \( P\left( {N < \infty }\right) > 0 \) . Conditional on \( \{ N < \infty \} ,\left\{ {{X}_{N + n}, n \geq 1}\right\} \) is independent of \( {\mathcal{F...
Proof. By Theorem A.1.5 it is enough to show that if \( A \in {\mathcal{F}}_{N} \) and \( {B}_{j} \in \mathcal{S} \) for \( 1 \leq j \leq k \) then\n\n\[ P\left( {A, N < \infty ,{X}_{N + j} \in {B}_{j},1 \leq j \leq k}\right) = P\left( {A\cap \{ N < \infty \} }\right) \mathop{\prod }\limits_{{j = 1}}^{k}\mu \left( {B}_...
Yes
For a concrete example of the use of \( \theta \), suppose \( S = {\mathbf{R}}^{d} \) and let\n\n\[ \tau \left( \omega \right) = \inf \left\{ {n : {\omega }_{1} + \cdots + {\omega }_{n} = 0}\right\} \]\n\nwhere \( \inf \varnothing = \infty \), and we set \( \tau \left( \Delta \right) = \infty \) . If we let \( {\tau }_...
Proof. We will prove this by induction. The result is trivial when \( n = 1 \) . Suppose now that it is valid for \( n - 1 \) . Applying Theorem 4.1.3 to \( N = {T}_{n - 1} \), we see that conditional on \( {T}_{n - 1} < \infty, T\left( {\theta }^{{T}_{n - 1}}\right) < \infty \) has the same probability as \( T < \inft...
Yes