LARGE DEVIATION THEOREMS FOR WEIGHTED COMPOUND
POISSON SUMS
Abstract: In this paper we present two large deviation results for weighted compound sums
, where ’s are i.i.d. (possibly lattice) random variables, ’s are
non-negative real numbers, and is a Poisson variable. These results are generalizations of
approximations for non-weighted compound sums and for non-compound weighted sums.
2000 AMS Mathematics Subject Classification: 60F10, 60F05, 60G50.
Key words and phrases: Large deviation expansions, compound process, weighted
sums, saddlepoint method.