A general estimator for the right endpoint with an application to supercentenarian women's records

DOI10.1007/s10687-016-0260-6zbMath1367.62160arXiv1412.3972MaRDI QIDQ2363668

M. Isabel Fraga Alves, Cláudia Neves, Pedro Rosario

Publication date: 25 July 2017

Published in: Extremes (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.3972

zbMATH Keywords

regular variation; Monte Carlo simulation; semiparametric estimation; extreme value theory; tail estimation; human lifespan

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62F10: Point estimation

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference