A general class of estimators of the ext
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Holger Drees
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Article
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1998
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We consider the class of estimators of the extreme value index [~ that can be represented as a scale invariant functional T applied to the empirical tail quantile function Q,. From an approximation of Q,, first asymptotic normality of T(Q~) is derived under quite natural smoothness conditions on 7"