%0 Book Section %1 Markovitch20011113 %A Markovitch, Natalia M. %A Krieger, Udo R. %B Teletraffic Engineering in the Internet EraProceedings of the International Teletraffic Congress - ITC-I7 %D 2001 %E Jorge Moreira de Souza, Nelson L.S. da Fonseca %E de Souza e Silva, Edmundo A. %I Elsevier %K itc itc17 %P 1113 - 1126 %R http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S1388-3437(01)80196-7 %T The estimation of heavy-tailed probability density functions and their mixtures %V 4 %X The paper is devoted to the estimation of heavy-tailed probability density functions (p.d.f.s) and their mixtures. We propose a new combined parametric and non-parametric approach applying both the bootstrap and the structural risk-minimization method. It is illustrated using some relevant mixtures of heavy-tailed p.d.f.s. and its effectiveness is shown by an application to real data arising from Web-traffic characteristics.

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