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One of the major interests in extreme-value statistics is to infer the tail properties of the distribution functions in the domain of attraction of an extreme-value distribution and to predict rare events. In recent years, much effort in developing new methodologies has been made by many researchers in this area so as to diminish the impact of the bias in the estimation and achieve some asymptotic optimality in inference problems such as estimating the optimal sample fractions and constructing confidence intervals of various quantities. In particular, bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods, which have been widely used in many areas of statistics, have drawn attention. This paper reviews some novel applications of the bootstrap and the empirical likelihood techniques in extreme-value statistics.
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Dedicated to Professor Laurens de Haan on the occasion of his 70th birthday.
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Qi, Y. Bootstrap and empirical likelihood methods in extremes. Extremes 11, 81–97 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10687-007-0049-8
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