Methods to Distinguish Between Polynomial and Exponential Tails

DOI10.1111/sjos.12037zbMath1416.62276arXiv1112.0514OpenAlexW1939432943MaRDI QIDQ5418631

Jalila Daoudi, Richard A. Lockhart, Joan del Castillo

Publication date: 26 May 2014

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.0514

zbMATH Keywords

extreme value theoryheavy tailed distributionsresidual coefficient of variationmultiple testing problempower distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32) Reliability and life testing (62N05)

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Uses Software

• ismev
• QRM

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