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Past exam of the probability course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 c iii Solution by
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Write and . The stationary increments and independent increments of the Poisson process make and independent random variables, each with Poisson distribution of parameter . ThusMultiplication of the two moment-generating functions givesThe odd terms cancel in Taylor's theorem, so . The limit is the moment-generating function of a normal distribution with mean zero and variance two. The same continuity theorem for moment-generating functions therefore yieldsIn particular, the two equal-length increments must be separated before using independence: and themselves are dependent.
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