Abstract:We give the distribution of M n , the maximum of a sequence of n observations from a moving average of order 1. Solutions are first given in terms of repeated integrals and then for the case where the underlying independent random variables are discrete. A solution appropriate for large n takes the formwhere {ν jx } are the eigenvalues of a certain matrix, r 1x is the maximum magnitude of the eigenvalues, and I depends on the number of possible values of the underlying random variables. The eigenvalues do not depend on x only on its range.