Small sample performance of Robust estimators of tail parameters for Pareto and exponential models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 1-19

  Brazauskas, Vytaras ^a   Serfling, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

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EID: 0035644007     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650108812103     Document Type: Article

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