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Heavy-tailed Distributions

Heavy-Tailed Distributions is a probability distribution characterized by a higher likelihood of extreme values compared to light-tailed distributions such as the normal distribution, exhibiting slower decay in the tails of the distribution function.

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Fat-tailed Distributions

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Statistical Inference Using Extreme Order Statistics

James Pickands · The Annals of Statistics · 1975 · 3.6K citations

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Limiting forms of the frequency distribution of the largest or smallest member of a sample

Ronald Aylmer Fisher, L. H. C. Tippett · Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 1928 · 3.3K citations

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A Simple General Approach to Inference About the Tail of a Distribution

Bruce M. Hill · The Annals of Statistics · 1975 · 3.1K citations · Full text

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Heavy-tailed prior distributions for sequence count data: removing the noise and preserving large differences

Anqi Zhu, Joseph G. Ibrahim, Michael I. Love · Bioinformatics · 2018 · 2.3K citations · Full text

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A Suggestion for Using Powerful and Informative Tests of Normality

Ralph B. D’Agostino, Albert J. Belanger, Ralph B. D’Agostino · The American Statistician · 1990 · 1.6K citations

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    Gauss M. Cordeiro

    Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

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    Morad Alizadeh

    Persian Gulf University, Iran

    22 publications · 1.1K citations

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    Qihe Tang

    University of Iowa, United States

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    Zubair Ahmad

    Yazd University, Iran

    17 publications · 579 citations

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    Thomas Mikosch

    University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

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    47 publications

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  3. Cornell University

    Ithaca, United States

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    52 publications

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  4. Columbia University

    New York, United States

    19 h-index

    46 publications

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  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    19 h-index

    31 publications

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  6. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    18 h-index

    37 publications

    2.7K citations

  7. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    18 h-index

    39 publications

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  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    18 h-index

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  2. The Annals of Statistics

    46 publications · 12.4K citations

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  4. Technometrics

    38 publications · 3.1K citations

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  5. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 75 publications · 2K citations

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