Analytical and Empirical Study of the Tails of Probability Distributions

Janos Galambos and Nicholas Macri
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Janos Galambos: Temple University, Department of Mathematics 038-16
Nicholas Macri: Temple University, Department of Mathematics 038-16

A chapter in Extreme Value Theory and Applications, 1994, pp 199-209 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract For the distribution function F(x) of a random variable X we define the end points 1 $$\alpha (F) = \inf \{ x:F(x) > 0\} {\text{and }}\omega {\text{(F) = sup\{ x:F(x)

Keywords: Valid Inequality; Random Fluctuation; Multivariate Distribution; Bivariate Distribution; Flood Level (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4613-3638-9_12

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