Bruce M. Hill

A Simple General Approach to Inference About the Tail of a Distribution

A simple general approach to inference about the tail behavior of a distribution is proposed. It is not required to assume any global form for the distribution function, but mer...

A Strong Law for Some Generalized Urn Processes

Let $f$ be a continuous function from the unit interval to itself and let $X_0, X_1, \\cdots$ be the successive proportions of red balls in an urn to which at the $n$th stage a ...

Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis