The method of moments ratio estimator for the tail shape parameter

DOI10.1080/03610929608831727MaRDI QIDQ4337152zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dennis W. Jansen, J. Danielsson, Casper G. de Vries

Publication date 19 May 1997

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://repub.eur.nl/pub/12408

zbMATH Keywords

biasHill estimatormethod of moments

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10)

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