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Past exam of the probability course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 c ii Solution by
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For fixed real , Taylor's theorem for the exponential function givesSubstituting into the previous moment-generating function,The continuity theorem for moment-generating functions states that, if the moment-generating functions of and are finite on a common open interval containing zero and throughout that interval, then . Here finiteness holds for all real , and the limit is the moment-generating function of a standard normal variable. ThereforeThis proves the required instance of the Poisson central limit theorem directly from moment-generating functions; no appeal to a general central limit theorem is needed.
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