Insensitivity to negative dependence of the asymptotic behavior of precise large deviations

Electronic Journal of Probability

Volumn 11, Issue , 2006, Pages 107-120

  Tang, Qihe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

(Lower upper) negative dependence; (Upper) Matuszewska index; Consistent variation; Partial sum; Precise large deviations; Uniform asymptotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 32544436726     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10836489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/EJP.v11-304     Document Type: Article

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