A very elementary proof of a probabilistic limit relation

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Authors Marcin E. Kuczma

Publication date 1990

Published in Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://eudml.org/doc/141493

zbMATH Keywords

Central Limit Theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convergence and divergence of series and sequences (40A05) Limit theorems in probability theory (60F99)

Review text

Let be \[ a_ n=e^{-n}\sum^{n-1}_{k=0}n^ k(k!)^{-1}. \] The Central Limit Theorem of the probability theory implies that \[ (*)\;\lim_{n\to \infty}a_ n=1/2 \] (\(a_ n\) is the probability that the sum on n independent, equally distributed Poisson random variables with parameter \(\lambda =1\) is smaller than the mean value). In this paper the limit relation (*) is proved by using completely elementary tools. Besides other tricks, inequalities \[ (1+1/n)^{n+1/3}<e,\;n!e^ n>n^{n+1/3},\;n=1,2,... \] are used.

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