A practical guide to heavy tails : statistical techniques and applications / Robert J. Adler, Raisa E. Feldman, Murad S. Taqqu, editors.
| Other author | Adler, Robert J. |
| Other author | Feldman, Raisa E., 1958- |
| Other author | Taqqu, Murad S. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Boston : Birkhäuser, ©1998. |
| Description | xvi, 533 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Heavy-tailed probability distributions in the World Wide Web / Mark E. Crovella, Murad S. Taqqu and Azer Bestavros -- Self-similarity and heavy tails : structural modeling of network traffic / Walter Willinger, Vern Paxson and Murad S. Taqqu -- Heavy tails in high-frequency financial data / Ulrich A. Müller, Michel M. Dacorogna and Olivier V. Pictet -- Stable paretian modeling in finance : some empirical and theoretical aspects / Stefan Mittnik, Svetlozar T. Rachev and Marc S. Paolella -- Risk management and quantile estimation / Franco Bassi, Paul Embrechts and Maria Kafetzaki -- Analysing stable time series / Robert J. Adler, Raisa E. Feldman and Colin Gallagher -- Inference for linear processes with stable noise / M. Calder and R.A. Davis -- On estimating the intensity of long-range dependence in finite and infinite variance time series / Murad S. Taqqu and Vadim Teverovsky -- Why non-linearities can ruin the heavy-tailed modeler's day / Sidney I. Resnick -- Periodogram estimates from heavy-tailed data / T. Mikosch -- Bayesian inference for time series with infinite variance stable innovations / Nalini Ravishanker and Zuqiang Qiou -- Hill, bootstrap and jackknife estimators for heavy tails / Olivier V. Pictet, Michel M. Dacorogna and Ulrich A. Müller -- Characteristic function based estimation of stable distribution parameters / Stephen M. Kogon and Douglas B. Williams -- Bootstrapping signs and permutations for regression with heavy-tailed errors : a robust resampling / Raoul LePage ... [et al.] -- Linear regression with stable disturbances / J. Huston McCulloch -- Deviation from normality in statistical signal processing : parameter estimation with alpha-stable distributions / Panagiotis Tsakalides and Chrysostomos L. Nikias --Statistical modeling and receiver design for multi-user communication networks / George A. Tsihrintzis -- Subexponential distributions / Charles M. Goldie and Claudia Klüppelberg -- Structure of stationary stable processes / Jan Rosiński -- Tail behavior of some shot noise processes / Gennady Samorodnitsky -- Numerical approximation of the symmetric stable distribution and density / J. Huston McCulloch -- Table of the maximally-skewed stable distributions / J. Huston McCulloch and Don B. Panton -- Multivariate stable distributions : approximation, estimation, simulation and identification ; Univariate stable distributions : parameterizations and software / John P. Nolan. |
| Local note | Little-311577--305131016765 |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 97008731 |
| ISBN | 0817639519 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 3764339519 (Basel : alk. paper) |