A strong invariance principle for the logarithmic average of sample maxima

Stochastic Processes and their Applications

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 317-337

  Fahrner, Ingo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

60F15; 60G70; Almost sure behavior of extremes; Extremal process; Invariance principle; Primary 60F17; Secondary 60F05; Strong approximation; Wiener process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002842421     PISSN: 03044149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-4149(00)00103-4     Document Type: Article

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