Estimating L -functionals for heavy-tailed distributions and application

Journal of Probability and Statistics

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Necir, Abdelhakim ^a   Meraghni, Djamel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BISKRA   (Algeria)

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EID: 80755176959     PISSN: 1687952X     EISSN: 16879538     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2010/707146     Document Type: Article

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