Kernel estimates of the tail index of a distribution

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DOI10.1214/aos/1176349656zbMath0588.62051OpenAlexW2088933672MaRDI QIDQ1073494

David M. Mason, Sándor Csörgö, Paul Deheuvels

Publication date: 1985

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176349656




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