Tsionas, Efthymios G. - In: Statistics & Probability Letters 82 (2012) 11, pp. 1986-1989
In this paper, we consider the estimation of the tail indices of distributions in the domain of attraction of stable laws. We follow the approach of Meerschaert and Scheffler (1999), which requires exclusively the spectral decomposition of the uncentered sample moment matrix containing the...