Le Cam's theorem

In probability theory, Le Cam's theorem, named after Lucien le Cam (1924 – 2000), states the following.

Suppose:

Then

In other words, the sum has approximately a Poisson distribution and the above inequality bounds the approximation error in terms of the total variation distance.

By setting p_i = λ_n/n, we see that this generalizes the usual Poisson limit theorem.

When ${\displaystyle \lambda _{n}}$ is large a better bound is possible: ${\displaystyle \sum _{k=0}^{\infty }\left|\Pr(S_{n}=k)-{\lambda _{n}^{k}e^{-\lambda _{n}} \over k!}\right|<2(1\wedge {\frac {1}{\lambda }}_{n})\sum _{i=1}^{n}p_{i}^{2}.}$

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