A remark on the comparison of the sum and the maximum of positive random variables
Abstract
We disprove a conjecture stated in a recent paper by Arnold and Villasenor concerning the sum and the maximum of independent and identically distributed half-normal random variables. Our method is applicable to generalized gamma distributions.
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