smoothtail_1.1.4 (October 15, 2009)
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- Updated references.

smoothtail_1.1.3 (June 4, 2009)
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- Updated references.

smoothtail_1.1.2 (Aug 23, 2008)
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- Added Seger's estimator (functions generalizedPick, lambdaGenPick)
- Updated references.

smoothtail_1.1.1 (Oct 4, 2007)
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- Updated contact informations.

smoothtail_1.1.0 (Aug 17, 2007):
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- Corrected bug in qgpd: max(p) instead of max(x).
- Updated references.
- Modified Pickands' estimator according to paper.

smoothtail 1.0 (initial version, Nov 27, 2006)
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- Provide functions to estimate the shape parameter gamma of a Generalized
  Pareto Distribution based on the fact that its density is log-concave
  for gamma in [-1,0].
  Depends on the package logcondens.
