Vector-valued cumulant generating function Λ(t) = log E[exp ⟨t, X⟩].
For a random vector X : Ω → ℝᵈ, this returns the logarithm of the moment generating
function evaluated at the dual variable t ∈ ℝᵈ, using the Euclidean inner product.
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Law of the empirical mean Aₙ = (1/n) ∑_{i<n} Xᵢ for an ℝᵈ-valued sample.
Pushforward of μ under the map ω ↦ (1/n) ∑_{i<n} Xᵢ(ω). Used to state Cramér's
theorem as a large deviation principle for the sequence of empirical-mean laws.
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Cramér rate function Λ*(x) = sup_λ {⟨λ, x⟩ − Λ(λ)} (Lecture 13).
The Legendre transform of the cumulant generating function Λ = logMGFVec X μ,
viewed as an ℝ≥0∞-valued rate function for the large deviation principle of the
empirical means of i.i.d. copies of X.
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Cramér's theorem (Lecture 13).
Let X₁, X₂, … be i.i.d. random vectors in ℝᵈ with common law and suppose the
moment generating function t ↦ E[exp ⟨t, X⟩] is finite in a neighborhood of 0.
Then the laws μₙ of the empirical means Aₙ = (1/n) ∑_{j<n} Xⱼ satisfy the large
deviation principle with the convex rate function
Λ*(x) = sup_λ {⟨λ, x⟩ − log E[exp ⟨λ, X⟩]}.