Limit distributions and Laplace’s method

Speaker : Élie de Panafieu
Nokia Bell Labs France
Date: 04/02/2019
Time: 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Location: Telecom Paristech, I304 (3rd floor)

Abstract

I will present some tools based on generating functions in order to study the limit distributions of some random variables. References:

  • Analytic Combinatorics (Flajolet & Sedgewick), available online for free,
  • Asymptotic Methods in Analysis (de Bruijn).