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We establish strong large deviation results for an arbitrary sequence of random vectors under some assumptions on the normalized cumulant generating function. In other words, we give asymptotic approximations for a multivariate tail probability of the same kind as the one obtained by Bahadur and Rao (Ann Math Stat 31:1015–1027, 1960) for the sample mean (in the one-dimensional case). The proof of our results follows the same lines as in Chaganty and Sethuraman (J Stat Plan Inference, 55:265–280, 1996). We also present three statistical applications to illustrate our results, the first one dealing with a vector of independent sample variances, the second one with a Gaussian multiple linear regression model and the third one with the multivariate Nadaraya–Watson estimator. Some numerical results are also presented for the first two applications.
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Joutard, C. Multidimensional strong large deviation results. Metrika 80, 663–683 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-017-0621-4
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-017-0621-4