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Conditional Distribution of Heavy Tailed Random Variables on Large Deviations of their Sum

Probability 2013-06-25 v4

Abstract

It is known that large deviations of sums of subexponential random variables are most likely realised by deviations of a single random variable. In this article we give a detailed picture of how subexponential random variables are distributed when a large deviation of their sum is observed.

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@article{arxiv.0912.1516,
  title  = {Conditional Distribution of Heavy Tailed Random Variables on Large Deviations of their Sum},
  author = {Inés Armendáriz and Michail Loulakis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.1516},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Results on local conditioning added