Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics, Vol. 35, No. 3 (2021), pp. 435-441 (7 pages) The aim of this note is to give an elegant proof of a result due to E. G. Olds which concerns the density ...

This paper studies the approximation of extreme quantiles of random sums of heavy-tailed random variables, or, more specifically, subexponential random variables. A key application of this ...

Let $W_{n}\coloneq \sum_{j=1}^{n}Z_{j}$ be a sum of independent integer-valued random variables. In this paper, we derive an asymptotic expansion for the probability ...