On the behavior of the product of independent random variables

Science in China, Series A: Mathematics

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 342-359

  Su, Chun ^a   Chen, Yu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Heavy tailed; Independent product; Stability; Tails of a distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645645125     PISSN: 10069283     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11425-006-0342-z     Document Type: Article

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