On the expectation of the maximum of IID geometric random variables

DOI10.1016/j.spl.2007.05.011zbMath1133.60326OpenAlexW1991354823MaRDI QIDQ2476821

Bennett Eisenberg

Publication date: 12 March 2008

Published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2007.05.011

zbMATH Keywords

Fourier seriesbioinformaticsmaximumfractional partexponential random variablesgeometric random variablesasymptotic expectation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05)

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