## The Annals of Probability

### Large Deviation Local Limit Theorems for Arbitrary Sequences of Random Variables

#### Abstract

The results of W. Richter (Theory Probab. Appl. (1957) 2 206-219) on sums of independent, identically distributed random variables are generalized to arbitrary sequences of random variables $T_n$. Under simple conditions on the moment generating function of $T_n$, which imply that $T_n/n$ converges to zero, it is shown, for arbitrary sequences $\{m_n\}$, that $k_n(m_n)$, the probability density function of $T_n/n$ at $m_n$, is asymptotic to an expression involving the large deviation rate of $T_n/n$. Analogous results for lattice valued random variables are also given. Applications of these results to statistics appearing in nonparametric inference are presented. Other applications to asymptotic distributions in statistical mechanics are pursued in another paper.

#### Article information

Source
Ann. Probab., Volume 13, Number 1 (1985), 97-114.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 19 April 2007

https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aop/1176993069

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1214/aop/1176993069

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR770631

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0559.60030

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