Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/85573 
Year of Publication: 
1998
Series/Report no.: 
Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper No. 98-090/4
Publisher: 
Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
Abstract: 
An abundance of high quality data sets requiring heavy tailed models necessitates reliablemethods of estimating the shape parameter governing the degree of tail heaviness.The Hill estimator is a popular method for doing this but its practical use isencumbered by several difficulties. We show that an alternative method of plotting Hillestimator values is more revealing than the standard method unless the underlyingdata comes from a Pareto distribution.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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