An Estimator of Heavy Tail Index through the Generalized Jackknife Methodology

In practice, sometimes the data can be divided into several blocks but only a few of the largest observations within each block are available to estimate the heavy tail index. To address this problem, we propose a new class of estimators through the Generalized Jackknife methodology based on Qi’s es...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Weiqi Liu, Hongwei Xing
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
Series:Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/686240