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Teor. Veroyatnost. i Primenen., 1995 Volume 40, Issue 2, Pages 260–269 (Mi tvp3475)

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Unimprovable exponential bounds for distributions of sums of a random number of random variables

A. A. Borovkov

Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: The basic object of the study is the asymptotic behavior of $\mathbf{P}(Z_\nu>t)$ as $t\to\infty $ for sums $Z_\nu$ of random number $\nu$ of random variables $\zeta_1,\zeta_2,\dots$ . It was established in [1] that, if conditional “with respect to the past” probabilities of the events $\{\zeta_k>t\}$ are dominated by a function $\delta_1(t)$, $\mathbf{P}(\nu>t)<\delta_2(t)$, and the functions $\delta_1$ and $\delta_2$ are close to power functions, then $\mathbf{P}(Z_\nu>t)<c\max(\delta_1(t),\delta_2(t))$, $c=\mathrm{const}$, and this bound cannot be improved. In the present paper, we study the asymptotics of $\mathbf{P}(Z_\nu>t)$ in the case when the functions $\delta_1$ and $\delta_2$ are exponential. The nature of unimprovable bounds for $\mathbf{P}(Z_\nu>t)$ turns out in this case to be different.

Keywords: sums of random number of random variables, stopped sums, large deviations, exponential bounds.

Received: 16.12.1991


 English version:
Theory of Probability and its Applications, 1995, 40:2, 230–237

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