Pareto index estimation under moderate right censoring

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal

Volumn 2001, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 111-125

  Beirlant, Jan ^a   Guillou, Armelle ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Censoring; Maximum likelihood; Pareto index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038244297     PISSN: 03461238     EISSN: 16512030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03461230152592764     Document Type: Article

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