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MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING
Volume 2014, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
HINDAWI LTD
DOI: 10.1155/2014/686240
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [71371113]
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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 estimator (2010). These estimators are proved to be asymptotically normal under suitable conditions. Compared to Hill's estimator and Qi's estimator, our new estimator has better asymptotic efficiency in terms of the minimum mean squared error, for a wide range of the second order shape parameters. For the finite samples, our new estimator still compares favorably to Hill's estimator and Qi's estimator, providing stable sample paths as a function of the number of dividing the sample into blocks, smaller estimation bias, and MSE.
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