ESTIMATION OF THE SECOND ORDER PARAMETER CHARACTERIZING THE TAIL BEHAVIOR OF PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY

  • Yun Seok-Hoon (Department of Applied Statistics, University of Suwon)
  • 발행 : 2006.03.01

초록

Yun (2005) introduced an estimator of the second order parameter characterizing the tail behavior of probability distributions and proved its consistency. In this paper we prove its asymptotic normality under a third order condition.

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