On the Problem of Discriminating between the Tails of Distributions

Heyde, C CAu, Khanhav2015-12-089812703918http://hdl.handle.net/1885/31107In 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)On the Problem of Discriminating between the Tails of Distributions20062015-12-08