Limiting behaviour of the distributions of the maxima of partial sums of certain random walks
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Applied Probability
- Vol. 9 (03) , 572-579
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021900200035877
Abstract
It is shown that, under certain conditions, satisfied by stable distributions, symmetric distributions, distributions with zero mean and finite second moment and other distributions, the distribution function of the maxima of successive partial sums of identically distributed random variables has an asymptotic property. This property implies the regular variation of the tail of the distribution of the hitting times of the associated random walk, and hence that these hitting times belong to the domain of attraction of a stable law.Keywords
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