Several modifications of DPR estimator of the tail index

DOI10.1007/S10986-011-9106-8zbMath1322.62094OpenAlexW2032873767MaRDI QIDQ392751

Vygantas Paulauskas, Marijus Vaičiulis

Publication date: 15 January 2014

Published in: Lithuanian Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10986-011-9106-8

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalitytail indexPickands estimatorHill estimatormean-squared errorDPR estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Central limit and other weak theorems (60F05) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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