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A Lynden-Bell integral estimator for the tail index of right-truncated data with a random threshold

Statistics Theory 2016-11-22 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

By means of a Lynden-Bell integral with deterministic threshold, Worms and Worms [A Lynden-Bell integral estimator for extremes of randomly truncated data. Statist. Probab. Lett. 2016; 109: 106-117] recently introduced an asymptotically normal estimator of the tail index for randomly right-truncated Pareto-type data. In this context, we consider the random threshold case to derive a Hill-type estimator and establish its consistency and asymptotic normality. A simulation study is carried out to evaluate the finite sample behavior of the proposed estimator.

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@article{arxiv.1611.05147,
  title  = {A Lynden-Bell integral estimator for the tail index of right-truncated data with a random threshold},
  author = {Nawel Haouas and Abdelhakim Necir and Djamel Meraghni and Brahim Brahimi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.05147},
  year   = {2016}
}