Package: smoothtail Type: Package Title: Smooth Estimation of GPD Shape Parameter Version: 2.0.6 Date: 2025-05-04 Authors@R: c(person(given = "Kaspar", family = "Rufibach", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "kaspar.rufibach@gmail.com"), person(given = "Samuel", family = "Mueller", role = "aut")) Maintainer: Kaspar Rufibach Depends: logcondens (>= 2.0.0) Imports: stats Description: Given independent and identically distributed observations X(1), ..., X(n) from a Generalized Pareto distribution with shape parameter gamma in [-1,0], offers several estimates to compute estimates of gamma. The estimates are based on the principle of replacing the order statistics by quantiles of a distribution function based on a log--concave density function. This procedure is justified by the fact that the GPD density is log--concave for gamma in [-1,0]. License: GPL (>= 2) URL: http://www.kasparrufibach.ch NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-04 08:38:07 UTC; root Author: Kaspar Rufibach [aut, cre], Samuel Mueller [aut] Repository: https://numbersman77.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-04-05 15:20:02 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/smoothtail RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 552264eaf77466f2bdaa3a48c44c3300766b7214