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Theory and Method

Estimation of Parameters and Large Quantiles Based on the k Largest Observations

Ishay Weissman Faculty of Industrial and Management Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Pages 812-815 | Received 01 Dec 1976, Published online: 05 Apr 2012

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