A class of unbiased location invariant Hill-type estimators for heavy tailed distributions

DOI10.1214/08-EJS276zbMath1320.62111arXiv0809.3869MaRDI QIDQ1951775

Jiaona Li, Zuo Xiang Peng, Saralees Nadarajah

Publication date: 24 May 2013

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.3869

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normality; second order regular variation; location invariant Hill-type heavy tailed index estimator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62E20: Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics

62G20: Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

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