New goodness-of-fit tests for Pareto distributions

ASTIN Bulletin

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 691-715

  Rizzo, Maria L ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Claims; Gini; Goodness of fit; Heavy tail; Pareto

Indexed keywords

EID: 72949107627     PISSN: 05150361     EISSN: 17831350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AST.39.2.2044654     Document Type: Article

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