The weighted bootstrap mean for heavy-tailed distributions

Journal of Theoretical Probability

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 547-569

  Del Barrio, E ^a   Matran C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domain of attraction; Heavy tailed distributions; Regular variation; Resampling intensity; Wasserstein distance; Weighted bootstrap; stable law

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042727605     PISSN: 08949840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007885222438     Document Type: Article

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