Censoring estimators of a positive tail index

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 147-159

  Gomes, M Ivette ^a   Oliveira, Orlando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Semi parametric estimation; Statistical theory of extremes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347759854     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2003.07.011     Document Type: Article

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