Abstract
This paper is based on Wald Lectures given at the annual meeting of the IMS in Minneapolis during August 2005. It is a survey of the theory of large deviations.
Citation
S. R. S. Varadhan. "Large deviations." Ann. Probab. 36 (2) 397 - 419, March 2008. https://doi.org/10.1214/07-AOP348
Information
Published: March 2008
First available in Project Euclid: 29 February 2008
zbMATH: 1146.60003
MathSciNet: MR2393987
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/07-AOP348
Subjects:
Primary:
60-02
,
60F10
Keywords:
large deviations
,
Rare events
Rights: Copyright © 2008 Institute of Mathematical Statistics