On closeness of two discrete weighted sums

Vydas Čekanavičius, Palaniappan Vellaisamy

The effect that weighted summands have on each other in approximations of $S=w_1{S}_1+w_2{S}_2+\cdots +w_N{S}_N$ is investigated. Here, $S_i$'s are sums of integer-valued random variables…