Under minimal moment conditions complete asymptotic expansions are obtained for expectations of unbounded functions of a finite family of independent random variables in the Poissonian setting when ...

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A random variable is a mathematical function that maps outcomes of random experiments to numbers. It can be thought of as the numeric result of operating a non-deterministic mechanism or performing a ...