Compound Poisson approximation for extremes of moving minima in arrays of independent random variables

Jadwiga Dudkiewicz

Applicationes Mathematicae (1998)

  • Volume: 25, Issue: 1, page 19-28
  • ISSN: 1233-7234

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We present conditions sufficient for the weak convergence to a compound Poisson distribution of the distributions of the kth order statistics for extremes of moving minima in arrays of independent random variables.

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Dudkiewicz, Jadwiga. "Compound Poisson approximation for extremes of moving minima in arrays of independent random variables." Applicationes Mathematicae 25.1 (1998): 19-28. <http://eudml.org/doc/219191>.

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