Maxima of Gamma random variables and other Weibull-like distributions and the Lambert WW function

• Armengol Gasull ^[1] ; José A. López-Salcedo ^[1] ; Frederic Utzet ^[1]
  1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

     Barcelona, España

     
• Localización: Test: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of Statistics and Operations Research, ISSN-e 1863-8260, ISSN 1133-0686, Vol. 24, Nº. 4, 2015, págs. 714-733
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In some applied problems of signal processing, the maximum of a sample of χ2(m) random variables is computed and compared with a threshold to assess certain properties. It is well known that this maximum, conveniently normalized, converges in law to a Gumbel random variable; however, numerical and simulation studies show that the norming constants that are usually suggested are inaccurate for moderate or even large sample sizes. In this paper, we propose, for Gamma laws (in particular, for a χ2(m) law) and other Weibull-like distributions, other norming constants computed with the asymptotics of the Lambert W function that significantly improve the accuracy of the approximation to the Gumbel law.