Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 ia Paper 2 10F Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-10-06
For , a Poisson distribution has mass for ; at it is concentrated at zero. Its moment-generating function isFor independent , the moment-generating function of their sum is the product, . Uniqueness of the moment-generating function near zero therefore gives . Repeating the argument gives when every parameter is one.
The displayed sequence is . The classical central limit theorem states that independent identically distributed variables with finite mean and nonzero finite variance have standardized sum converging in distribution to the standard normal distribution. Here , soConvergence of the distribution functions at the continuity point zero justifies the last step. This is the Poisson cumulative probability at its growing mean.