1994 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
On a Theorem of V. M. Zolotarev
Author : W. Hoeffding
Published in: The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding
Publisher: Springer New York
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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Let be a sequence of independent random variables, where has x2 distribution with nr degrees of freedom and let be a strongly decreasing sequence of positive numbers such that. Then the random variable (1)$$ \xi = \sum\limits_{r = 1}^\infty {\sigma _r^2 \chi _r^2 } $$ exists with probability 1. V. M. Zolotarev [1] has shown that (2)$$\begin{array}{*{20}{c}} {\lim } \\ {x \to \infty } \\ \end{array} \frac{{{{\mathcal{P}}_{\xi }}(x)}}{{\mathcal{P}\sigma _{1}^{2}x_{1}^{2}\left( x \right)}} = {{\prod\limits_{{r = 2}}^{\infty } {\left( {1 - \frac{{\sigma _{r}^{2}}}{{\sigma _{r}^{2}}}} \right)} }^{{ - {{n}_{r}}/2}}}$$ where Pξ′(x) is the probability density of the random variable ξ′. From (2) one can easily obtain an asymptotic expression for P{ξ > x} for x → ∞.