Tail index estimation with a fixed tuning parameter fraction

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2015.08.005zbMATH Open1383.62154OpenAlexW1216217498MaRDI QIDQ899351FDOQ899351

Authors Chaitra H. Nagaraja, Tucker S. McElroy 

Publication date 28 December 2015

Published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2015.08.005

zbMATH Keywords

heavy tailsextreme value theorystable distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Statistics of extreme values; tail inference (62G32)

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