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Asymptotic tail behaviour of phase-type scale mixture distributions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 August 2017
Abstract
We consider phase-type scale mixture distributions which correspond to distributions of a product of two independent random variables: a phase-type random variable Y and a non-negative but otherwise arbitrary random variable S called the scaling random variable. We investigate conditions for such a class of distributions to be either light- or heavy-tailed, we explore subexponentiality and determine their maximum domains of attraction. Particular focus is given to phase-type scale mixture distributions where the scaling random variable S has discrete support – such a class of distributions has been recently used in risk applications to approximate heavy-tailed distributions. Our results are complemented with several examples.
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