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Past exam of the probability course of the University of Oxford 2015 1 a ii Solution by
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Put . Its survival function isFor each fixed , eventually , and the exponential limit gives . Thus its cumulative distribution function tends to for and to for . This continuous limiting cumulative distribution function identifies the exponential distribution with rate one:This is the exponential endpoint limit of a uniform maximum: the gap from the upper endpoint is typically of order , although the maximum itself approaches a constant.
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