Number and sum of near-maxima for thin-tailed populations

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1100-1116

  Pakes, Anthony G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FUNCTIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LIMIT THEOREMS; NEAR MAXIMA; ORDER STATISTICS; POISSON APPROXIMATION; POISSON EQUATION; REGULAR VARIATION; SAMPLE MAXIMA; TRIMMED MEANS;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0034430086     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/aap/1013540350     Document Type: Article

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