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Cramer's condition and Sanov's theorem

✍ Scribed by Alexander Schied


Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
305 KB
Volume
39
Category
Article
ISSN
0167-7152

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✦ Synopsis


We discuss whether Sanov's theorem can be extended to a topology that renders the mapping v ~-~ f f dv continuous, for a given measurable function f. We show that this is possible if and only if f possesses all exponential moments with respect to the underlying law #.


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