A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the limiting probability of a tie for first place

Yuliy Baryshnikov; Bennett Eisenberg; Gilbert Stengle

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A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of the limiting probability of a tie for first place

Yuliy Baryshnikov, Bennett Eisenberg, Gilbert Stengle

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Abstract

Suppose that the scores of n players are unbounded, independent, integer valued random variables equal in distribution to X. We show that as n → ∞, the limiting probability of a tie for the highest score exists if and only if P(X = j)/P(X > j) → 0 as j → ∞.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	203-209
Number of pages	7
Journal	Statistics and Probability Letters
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/0167-7152(94)00114-N
State	Published - May 15 1995
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Existence of the limiting probability
Geometric distribution
Highest score
Logarithmic summability
Tauberian theorem
Tie

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Statistics and Probability
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

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