On the max-domain of attraction of distributions with log-concave densities

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1440-1444

  Müller, Samuel ^a   Rufibach, Kaspar ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

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EID: 49549086893     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.12.008     Document Type: Article

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