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Tail Behaviour of Weighted Sums of Order Statistics of Dependent Risks

Probability 2014-08-07 v1 Applications

Abstract

Let X1,,XnX_{1},\ldots ,X_{n} be nn real-valued dependent random variables. With motivation from Mitra and Resnick (2009), we derive the tail asymptotic expansion for the weighted sum of order statistics X1:nXn:nX_{1:n}\leq \cdots \leq X_{n:n} of X1,,XnX_{1},\ldots ,X_{n} under the general case in which the distribution function of Xn:nX_{n:n} is long-tailed or rapidly varying and % X_{1},\ldots ,X_{n} may not be comparable in terms of their tail probability. We also present two examples and an application of our results in risk theory.

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@article{arxiv.1408.1296,
  title  = {Tail Behaviour of Weighted Sums of Order Statistics of Dependent Risks},
  author = {Enkelejd Hashorva and Jinzhi Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.1296},
  year   = {2014}
}