Likelihood-Based Inference for Extreme Value Models |
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Authors: | Stuart G Coles Mark J Dixon |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Pennsylvania;(2) School of Mathematics, Actuarial Science and Statistics, City University, Canada |
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Abstract: | Estimation of the extremal behavior of a process is often based on the fitting of asymptotic extreme value models to relatively short series of data. Maximum likelihood has emerged as a flexible and powerful modeling tool in such applications, but its performance with small samples has been shown to be poor relative to an alternative fitting procedure based on probability weighted moments. We argue here that the small-sample superiority of the probability weighted moments estimator is due to the assumption of a restricted parameter space, corresponding to finite population moments. To incorporate similar information in a likelihood-based analysis, we propose a penalized maximum likelihood estimator that retains the modeling flexibility and large-sample optimality of the maximum likelihood estimator, but improves on its small-sample properties. The properties of the penalized likelihood estimator are verified in a simulation study, and in application to sea-level data, which also enables the procedure to be evaluated in the context of structural models for extremes. |
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Keywords: | generalized extreme value distribution maximum likelihood probability weighted moments small sample properties |
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