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The main objective of statistics of extremes is the prediction of rare events, and its primary problem has been the estimation of the tail index γ, usually performed on the basis of the largest k order statistics in the sample or on the excesses over a high level u. The question that has been often addressed in practical applications of extreme value theory is the choice of either k or u, and an adaptive...
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