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Rates of convergence towards the Fr\'echet distribution

Probability 2013-11-18 v1

Abstract

We develop Stein's method for the Fr\'echet distribution and apply it to compute rates of convergence in distribution of renormalized sample maxima to the Fr\'echet distribution.

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@article{arxiv.1311.3896,
  title  = {Rates of convergence towards the Fr\'echet distribution},
  author = {Carine Bartholmé and Yvik Swan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3896},
  year   = {2013}
}