Two Conditional Limit Theorems with Applications

Abstract

Let $(X_1, Y_1),\cdots, (X_N, Y_N)$ be i.i.d. rv's where the $X$'s are nonnegative integer-valued. Conditional on $\sigma X_k$ the asymptotic distribution of $\sigma Y_k$ and $\sigma a_k X_k$ are derived by general methods. Some applications are briefly discussed: sampling without replacement, the classical occupancy problem, the Wilcoxon statistic, the Poisson index of dispersion, testing geometric versus Poisson distribution.