We study the exact asymptotics of almost surely extreme values of discrete random variables.
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Translated from Ukrains’kyi Matematychnyi Zhurnal, Vol. 68, No. 7, pp. 945–956, July, 2016.
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Matsak, I.K. Asymptotic Behavior of the Extreme Values of Random Variables. Discrete Case. Ukr Math J 68, 1077–1090 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11253-016-1278-2
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