Bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods in extremes

Extremes

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 81-97

  Qi, Yongcheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Confidence interval; Empirical likelihood; Extremes; High quantile; Sample fraction; Tail index

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749130886     PISSN: 13861999     EISSN: 1572915X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10687-007-0049-8     Document Type: Article

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