Athreya, J. S.; Sethuraman, S. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 54 (2001) 3, pp. 243-249
Let X1,X2,...,Xn be a sequence of independent, identically distributed positive integer random variables. We study the asymptotics of the likelihood that the sample maximum is achieved k times and in its spacing relative to the second highest value. Earlier and other results are discussed in...