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Main Author: Okamura, Kazuki
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10395
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author Okamura, Kazuki
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contents We disprove a conjecture stated in a recent paper by Arnold and Villasenor concerning the sum and the maximum of independent and identically distributed half-normal random variables. Our method is applicable to generalized gamma distributions.
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spellingShingle A remark on the comparison of the sum and the maximum of positive random variables
Okamura, Kazuki
Probability
Statistics Theory
60E05, 62E10
We disprove a conjecture stated in a recent paper by Arnold and Villasenor concerning the sum and the maximum of independent and identically distributed half-normal random variables. Our method is applicable to generalized gamma distributions.
title A remark on the comparison of the sum and the maximum of positive random variables
topic Probability
Statistics Theory
60E05, 62E10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.10395