Maxima of Poisson-like variables and related triangular arrays

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 953-971

  Anderson, Clive W ^a   Coles, Stuart G ^b   Hüsler, Jürg ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Extreme values; Large deviations; Modelling of extremes; Poisson distribution; Radiation counts; Regular variation; Subexponential distributions; Triangular arrays

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031260680     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1043862420     Document Type: Article

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