The limit behavior of maxima modulo one and the number of maxima

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 357-366

  Qi, Yongcheng ^a   Wilms, R J G ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Distribution modulo 1; Extreme order statistics; Fractional parts; Number of maxima

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031116169     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(96)00095-8     Document Type: Article

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