On blocks and runs estimators of the extremal index

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 281-288

  Weissman, I ^b   Novak, S Yu ^a  

^a NOVOSIBIRSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Consistency and asymptotic normality; Mixing conditions; Stationary sequences

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032011339     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(97)00095-5     Document Type: Article

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