4 papers
Shielding the vulnerable in an epidemic: a numerical approach
Guus Balkema
The death toll for Covid-19 may be reduced by dividing the population into two classes, the vulnerable and the fit, with different lockdown regimes. Instead of one reproduction num…
The Borel-Cantelli Lemmas for contaminated events, and small maxima
Guus Balkema
For a sequence of independent events the sum of the associated zero-one random variables is almost surely finite or almost surely infinite according as the sum of t…
Asymptotic independence for unimodal densities
Guus Balkema, Natalia Nolde
Asymptotic independence of the components of random vectors is a concept used in many applications. The standard criteria for checking asymptotic independence are given in terms of…
Sensitivity of the limit shape of sample clouds from meta densities
Guus Balkema, Paul Embrechts, Natalia Nolde
The paper focuses on a class of light-tailed multivariate probability distributions. These are obtained via a transformation of the margins from a heavy-tailed original distributio…