Abstract

We establish Edgeworth expansions for the distribution function of the standardized Hill estimator for the reciprocal of the index of regular variation of the tail of a distribution function. The expansions are used to derive expansions for coverage probabilities of confidence intervals for the tail index based on the Hill estimator.

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