Standardized binomial distribution.
The law of (Sₙ − np) / √(np(1−p)) where Sₙ ~ Binomial(n, p). This is the
standardized sum appearing in the DeMoivre–Laplace limit theorem.
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The real-valued binomial measure Bin(ℝ, n, p) is a probability measure.
The standardized binomial measure is a probability measure (pushforward of a probability measure under a measurable affine map).
Bundled ProbabilityMeasure wrapper around standardizedBinomial n p.
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The standard normal distribution N(0, 1) packaged as a ProbabilityMeasure ℝ.
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Characteristic function of the standard normal: φ_Z(t) = exp(−t² / 2).
Affine transformation of a characteristic function.
If Y = (X − a)/s then φ_Y(t) = φ_X(t/s) · exp(−i a t / s).
Point mass formula for the binomial distribution.
For k ≤ n, Binomial(n, p)({k}) = C(n, k) · pᵏ · (1−p)ⁿ⁻ᵏ.
The binomial distribution Binomial(n, p) assigns mass zero to any k > n.
Every function f : ℕ → ℂ is integrable against Binomial(n, p) since the
distribution is supported on the finite set {0, …, n}.
Integrals against the binomial measure are finite sums:
∫ f d(Binomial(n, p)) = ∑_{k=0}^{n} C(n,k) · pᵏ · (1−p)ⁿ⁻ᵏ · f(k).
Characteristic function of the real-valued binomial distribution.
φ_{Bin(n, p)}(t) = ((1 − p) + p · e^{it})ⁿ.
Characteristic function of the standardized binomial as a rescaling of the
characteristic function of Bin(n, p). Specialization of charFun_map_affine to the
shift np and scale s = √(np(1−p)).
Second-order Taylor remainder bound for exp.
For ‖z‖ ≤ 1, the remainder after the degree-2 Taylor polynomial of exp satisfies
‖e^z − 1 − z − z²/2‖ ≤ 2 ‖z‖³. Used in the proof of the DeMoivre–Laplace CLT.
Convergence of characteristic functions in DeMoivre–Laplace.
For 0 < p < 1 and every t ∈ ℝ, the characteristic function of the standardized
binomial converges to the characteristic function of the standard normal:
φ_{standardizedBinomial n p}(t) → exp(−t² / 2).
This is the key analytic step in proving deMoivreLaplace_clt via Lévy's continuity
theorem.
DeMoivre–Laplace limit theorem (Lecture 12).
Let Xᵢ be i.i.d. Bernoulli(p) and Sₙ = X₁ + ⋯ + Xₙ so that Sₙ ~ Binomial(n, p).
For 0 < p < 1, the standardized sums (Sₙ − np)/√(np(1−p)) converge in distribution
to the standard normal:
P{a ≤ (Sₙ − np)/√(np(1−p)) ≤ b} → Φ(b) − Φ(a) as n → ∞.
The proof combines tendsto_charFun_standardizedBinomial with Lévy's continuity
theorem (ProbabilityMeasure.tendsto_iff_tendsto_charFun).