Let us deal with positive i.i.d. random variables X1, . . ., Xm having a tail index α. Calculating a quotient of two biggest members in the set, we obtain a new random variable and investigate its distribution and moment properties. The method itself was proposed by prof. V. Paulauskas and co-authors in [1] and [2].
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