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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2015 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability 8 b iii Solution by
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Using the probability mass function of the Poisson distribution directly givesFor each fixed positive integer , this series converges: the ratio of successive nonzero terms is , which tends to zero. Equivalently, using the polynomial identity in (ii) and the factorial moments from (a)(iv) gives ; the extension of that identity to is justified in (iv).
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