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2005 Sep 07
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fitting distribution tails
Hello, I want to fit a distribution to a dataset. Important is not the "overall" fitting but the fitting in the tail (e.g. all observations > x or the n highest values). Standard ML-estimation sometimes doesn't work here very well. We see that especially when we have truncated datasets the algorithms won't converge. In the case of lognormal distribution: It seems that the