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Original Articles

Exact distribution of the linear combination of p Gumbel random variables

Pages 1355-1362 | Received 07 Oct 2005, Accepted 24 Jun 2007, Published online: 20 Aug 2008
 

Abstract

The distribution of linear combinations of independent Gumbel random variables arises explicitly in many applied areas, including economics, electrical and electronic engineering, and hydrological sciences. However, the exact distribution has not been known in its most general form. In this paper, the exact distribution of the linear combination Z1 X 1+···+α p X p is derived when X j are independent Gumbel random variables. A computer program is provided for the associated percentile points.

2000 AMS Subject Classification :

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the editor and the two referees for carefully reading the paper and for their comments that greatly improved the paper.

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Saralees Nadarajah

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