Research Article

An Estimator of Heavy Tail Index through the Generalized Jackknife Methodology

Table 1

The simulated mean values and MSEs of , , and .


Frchet ()[] 1.0001 0.9997 1.0001
MSE[]
Frchet ()[] 2.0001 1.9994 2.0002
MSE[]
GP ()[] 1.0000 1.0001 1.0001
MSE[]
GP ()[] 2.0000 2.0000 2.0000
MSE[]
Burr ()[] 1.0306 0.9889 0.9955
MSE[]
Burr ()[] 2.0612 1.9778 1.9910
MSE[]