lpindex: Lp quantile based tail index estimator

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lpindexR Documentation

Lp quantile based tail index estimator

Description

This function computes the Lp quantile based tail index estimator.

Usage

lpindex(X,k,p,br=FALSE)

Arguments

X

Data vector.

k

A vector of number of upper order statistics.

p

The chosen Lp-quantile (must be greater than 1).

br

Bias-reduced version if TRUE. Default: FALSE.

Value

A vector of k estimates of the tail index.

Author(s)

Antoine Usseglio-Carleve

References

Girard, S., Stupfler, G., and Usseglio-Carleve, A. (2020). Composite bias-reduced Lp-quantile estimators of extreme quantiles and expectiles, preprint.


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