Second-order regular variation and rates of convergence in extreme-value theory

Annals of Probability

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-124

  De Haan, Laurens ^a   Resnick, Sidney ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

Extremes; Poisson process; Rates of convergence; Regular variation; Second order conditions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030485816     PISSN: 00911798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aop/1042644709     Document Type: Article

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