Large Deviations and Applications: The Finite Dimensional Case

Abstract

These notes, which form the first chapter of a forthcoming book, are intended to serve as lecture notes on the topic of large deviations and applications for students whose background and interests are in applications which involve finite dimensional spaces. Although narrow in their scope, these notes present a good deal of the methods available for more general situations. A glaring omission is the method of sub-additivity, which will be discussed in another chapter in the book. Another deficiency of these notes is the sketchy bibliography and historical notes. We hope to correct this in the book.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA459540

Entities

People

  • A. Dembo
  • O. Zeitouni

Organizations

  • Stanford University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science
  • Convex Sets
  • Distribution Functions
  • Eigenvalues
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Finite Alphabet
  • Information Theory
  • Markov Chains
  • Normal Distribution
  • Numbers
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Random Variables
  • Random Walk
  • Standards
  • Theorems

Fields of Study

  • Mathematics

Readers

  • Theoretical Analysis.

Technology Areas

  • Space