Sums, Trimmed Sums and Extremes

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the study of the asymp­ totic behavior of sums formed from an independent sequence of random variables. In particular, recent attention has focused on the interaction of the extreme summands with, and their influence upon, the sum. As ob­ served by many authors, the limit theory for sums can be meaningfully expanded far beyond the scope of the c...