Does bias reduction with external estimator of second order parameter work for endpoint?

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1937-1952

  Li, Deyuan ^a   Peng, Liang ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias reduction; Endpoint; Extreme value index

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949107783     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2008.08.023     Document Type: Article

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