Reducing bias of the maximum-likelihood estimation for the truncated Pareto distribution |
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Authors: | Jin Zhang |
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Affiliation: | 1. School of Mathematics and Statistics , Yunnan University , Kunming , Yunnan , 650091 , People's Republic of China jinzhang@ynu.edu.cn |
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Abstract: | The Pareto distribution is an important distribution in statistics, which has been widely used in finance, physics, hydrology, geology, astronomy, and so on. Even though the parameter estimation for the Pareto distribution has been well established in the literature, the estimation problem for the truncated Pareto distribution becomes complex. This article investigates the bias and mean-squared error of the maximum-likelihood estimation for the truncated Pareto distribution, and some useful results are obtained. |
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Keywords: | distribution function Monte Carlo simulation parameter estimation mean-squared error |
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