How Can Non-invariant Statistics Work in Our Benefit in the Semi-parametric Estimation of Parameters of Rare Events

DOI10.1081/SAC-120023875zbMath1100.62572MaRDI QIDQ4431286

M. Ivette Gomes, Orlando Oliveira

Publication date: 19 October 2003

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G32: Statistics of extreme values; tail inference

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