Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1155246 Statistics & Probability Letters 2008 9 Pages PDF
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A study of the expected value of the maximum of independent, identically distributed (IID) geometric random variables is presented based on the Fourier analysis of the distribution of the fractional part of the maximum of corresponding IID exponential random variables.

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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Statistics and Probability
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On the expectation of the maximum of IID geometric random variables
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