Beta-gamma tail asymptotics

DOI10.1214/ECP.V20-4545zbMATH Open1328.60059arXiv1509.02583OpenAlexW2962833670MaRDI QIDQ894513FDOQ894513

Miklós Z. Rácz, Jim Pitman

Publication date: 1 December 2015

Published in: Electronic Communications in Probability (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We compute the tail asymptotics of the product of a beta random variable and a generalized gamma random variable which are independent and have general parameters. A special case of these asymptotics were proved and used in a recent work of Bubeck, Mossel, and R'acz in order to determine the tail asymptotics of the maximum degree of the preferential attachment tree. The proof presented here is simpler and highlights why these asymptotics hold.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02583

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zbMATH Keywords

tail asymptoticsbeta-gamma algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Distribution theory (60E99)

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