Sample path large deviations for order statistics

Journal of Applied Probability

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 238-257

  Duffy, Ken R ^a   MacCi, Claudio ^b   Torrisi, Giovanni Luca ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Empirical law; Large deviation; Order statistic; Skorokhod topology; Weak convergence

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054773227     PISSN: 00219002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1239/jap/1300198147     Document Type: Article

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