A simple general approach to inference about the tail of a distribution

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DOI10.1214/aos/1176343247zbMath0323.62033MaRDI QIDQ1224394

Bruce M. Hill

Publication date: 1975

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176343247


62F99: Parametric inference

62G30: Order statistics; empirical distribution functions


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