Strassen's LIL for the Lorenz curve

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-12

  Csörgo, Miklós ^a   Zitikis, Ričardas ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Empirical process; Integrated empirical difference process; Lorenz curve; Lorenz process; Mean residual life process; Quantile process; Relative compactness; Strassen's law of the iterated logarithm; Total time on test function; Vervaat process

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030268507     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1996.0050     Document Type: Article

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