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heavytails: Estimators and Algorithms for Heavy-Tailed Distributions

Implements the estimators and algorithms described in Chapters 8 and 9 of the book "The Fundamentals of Heavy Tails: Properties, Emergence, and Estimation" by Nair et al. (2022, ISBN:9781009053730). These include the Hill estimator, Moments estimator, Pickands estimator, Peaks-over-Threshold (POT) method, Power-law fit, and the Double Bootstrap algorithm.

Version: 0.1.1
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: stats
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-12-01
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.heavytails
Author: Farid Rohan [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Farid Rohan <frohan at ur.rochester.edu>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/0diraf/heavytails
NeedsCompilation: no
CRAN checks: heavytails results

Documentation:

Reference manual: heavytails.html , heavytails.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: heavytails_0.1.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: heavytails_0.1.1.zip, r-release: heavytails_0.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: heavytails_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): heavytails_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): heavytails_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): heavytails_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): heavytails_0.1.1.tgz

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