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Abstract #301796

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Activity Number: 19
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Sunday, August 8, 2004 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract - #301796
Title: On Estimation of Pareto Distribution
Author(s): Mei Ling Huang*+ and Jing Tang
Companies: Brock University and Brock University
Address: Dept. of Mathematics, St. Catharinse, ON, L2S 3A1, Canada
Keywords: quantile ; order statistics ; weighted empirical distribution function ; truncated Pareto distribution
Abstract:

The paper studies Pareto distribution and truncated Pareto distribution. Several estimation methods for distribution functions and quantiles are discussed. The efficiency functions of these estimators have been derived. Monte Carlo simulation results confirm the theoretical conclusions. Comparisons and suggestions for different methods are also given.

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