Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

Estimation of heavy-tailed density functions with application to WWW-traffic

  • Natalia M. Markovich

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

The estimation of heavy-tailed probability density function is an important tool for the description of the Web-traffic data and the solution of applied problems such as classification. The paper is devoted to the non-parametric estimation of a heavy-tailed probability density function by a variable bandwidth kernel estimator. Two approaches are used: (1) a preliminary transformation of the data to provide more accurate estimation of the density at the tail domain; (2) the discrepancy method based on the Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic to evaluate the bandwidth of the kernel estimator. It is proved that the discrepancy method may provide the fastest achievable order of the mean squared error. An application to Web data analysis is presented.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2006 2nd Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering, NGI 2006
Pages208-215
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Dec 2006
Externally publishedYes
Event2006 2nd Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering, NGI 2006 - Valencia, Spain
Duration: 3 Apr 20065 Apr 2006

Publication series

Name2006 2nd Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering, NGI 2006

Conference

Conference2006 2nd Conference on Next Generation Internet Design and Engineering, NGI 2006
Country/TerritorySpain
CityValencia
Period3/04/065/04/06

Keywords

  • Discrepancy method
  • Heavy-tailed distribution
  • Tail index
  • Web-traffic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Estimation of heavy-tailed density functions with application to WWW-traffic'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this