On moments and tail behavior of ν-stable random variables

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 307-315

  Kozubowski, Tomasz J ^a   Panorska, Anna K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT CHATTANOOGA   (United States)

Author keywords

Geometric stable law; Random summation; Stable law; Tail behavior of a distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030590323     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00187-5     Document Type: Article

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