Only the first term of some series counts

DOI10.1016/J.SPL.2011.05.012MaRDI QIDQ634582zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Aurel Spătaru

Publication date 16 August 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spl.2011.05.012

zbMATH Keywords

normal distributionexponential distributiongeometric distributiontail probabilities of sums of i.i.d. random variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50)

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