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UNIFORM ESTIMATES FOR THE TAIL PROBABILITY OF MAXIMA OVER FINITE HORIZONS WITH SUBEXPONENTIAL TAILS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2004

Qihe Tang
Qihe Tang
Affiliation:
Department of Quantitative Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: q.tang@uva.nl
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Abstract

Let F be the common distribution function of the increments of a random walk {Sn, n ≥ 0} with S0 = 0 and a negative drift and let {N(t), t ≥ 0} be a general counting process, independent of {Sn, n ≥ 0}. This article investigates the tail probability, denoted by ψ(x; t), of the maximum of SN(v) over a finite horizon 0 ≤ v ≤ t. When F is strongly subexponential, some asymptotics for ψ(x; t) are derived as x → ∞. The merit is that all of the obtained asymptotics are uniform for t in a finite or infinite time interval.

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Research Article
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Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2004 , pp. 71 - 86
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© 2004 Cambridge University Press

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