On the Problem of Discriminating between the Tails of Distributions

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2006

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Heyde, C C
Au, Khanhav

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World Scientific Publishing Company

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In areas such as financial and insurance risk and communication network design the heaviness of the tail of the underlying distribution is crucial for the calculations. However, although it seems straightforward theoretically to distinguish between (say)

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Contributions to Probability and Statistics: Applications and Challenges. Proceedings of the International Statistics Workshop

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