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CDAM Research Report, LSE-CDAM-98-02February 1998 |
A.J. Ostaszewski
Abstract
By analogy with the hazard-rate, we propose to measure tail thickness of a cumulative distribution function F(x) by means of a shift function p(x) >= 0 defined by
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