The asymptotic distributions of sums of record values for distributions with regularly varying tails.
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: The asymptotic distributions of sums of record values for distributions with regularly varying tails.
zbMATH Open document ID: 1046.62014
DOI: 10.1023/A:1016542921021
author: Chun Su
author: Zhishui Hu
published in: Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York)
publication date: 2003-04-27T00:00:00Z
review text: Let \(X_1,X_2,\dots\) be a sequence of independent and identically distributed random variables with continuous distribution function \(F\). It is assumed that \(F\) has a regularly varying tail, i.e., \(1-F(x)=x^{-\alpha}L(x)\) for \(x>0\), where \(\alpha>0\) and \(L(x)\) is a slowly varying function as \(x\to\infty\). For \(k\geq 2\), \(X_k\) is a record value if and only if \(X_k>\max\{X_1,\dots,X_{k-1}\}\). By convention, \(X_1\) is a record value. Let \(T_n\) be the sum of the first \(n\) record values. The main result of the paper says that, under the present assumptions, two sequences of positive numbers \(\{a_n\}\) and \(\{b_n\}\) with \(b_n\uparrow\infty\), \(n\to\infty\), exist such that \((\log(T_n)-\log(a_n))b_n^{-1}\) converges in distribution to the standard normal law, i.e., \((T_n/a_n)^{1/b_n}\) is asymptotically lognormal. A second result states that \(T_n\) cannot converge in distribution to any non-degenerate law through common centralizing and normalizing.
reviewed by: B. Roos
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62E20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62G32
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60F05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60G70
zbMATH DE Number: 1897052
zbMATH Keywords: sums of record values
zbMATH Keywords: central limit theorem
zbMATH Keywords: heavy tails
zbMATH Keywords: regularly varying tails
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