Mixed poisson distributions tail equivalent to their mixing distributions

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 229-233

  Perline, Richard ^a  

^a Flexible Logic Software   (United States)

Author keywords

Extreme value theory; Lognormal distribution; Mixed Poisson distribution; Negative binomial distribution; Pareto distribution; Poisson lognormal distribution; Tail equivalence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032525542     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00019-4     Document Type: Article

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