On the impossibility of estimating densities in the extreme tail
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: On the impossibility of estimating densities in the extreme tail
zbMATH Open document ID: 0916.62031
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-7152(98)00246-6
author: J. Beirlant
author: Luc Devroye
published in: Statistics \& Probability Letters
publication date: 1999-05-31T00:00:00Z
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62G07
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62G05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62F12
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 62G20
zbMATH DE Number: 1278995
zbMATH Keywords: lower bounds
zbMATH Keywords: rate of convergence
zbMATH Keywords: maxima
zbMATH Keywords: extreme values
MaRDI profile type: Publication
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