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Breaking bivariate records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2020

James Allen Fill*
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD21218, USA

Abstract

We establish a fundamental property of bivariate Pareto records for independent observations uniformly distributed in the unit square. We prove that the asymptotic conditional distribution of the number of records broken by an observation given that the observation sets a record is Geometric with parameter 1/2.

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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Research supported by the Acheson J. Duncan Fund for the Advancement of Research in Statistics.

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