Extreme-value analysis of teletraffic data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 85-103

  Tsourti, Zoi ^a   Panaretos, John ^a  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Extreme value index; Long tails; Smoothing procedures; Teletraffic engineering

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; JOB ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXTREME-VALUE ANALYSIS; TELETRAFFIC DATA;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

INTERNET;

EID: 1042301808     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(03)00116-6     Document Type: Article

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