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Tail estimates motivated by extreme-value theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Richard Davis  and
Sidney Resnick
Richard Davis*
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
Sidney Resnick*
Affiliation:
Colorado State University
*
∗Partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 08202335 and AFOSR F49629 82 c 009.
∗∗Partially supported by NSF Grant MCS 08202335.
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Type
Inference for Stochastic Processes
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Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 254 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1985 

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