Tail index estimation for heavy tails: accommodation of bias in the excesses over a high threshold |
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Authors: | M. Ivette Gomes Lígia Henriques Rodrigues |
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Affiliation: | (1) Faculty of Science, DEIO and CEAUL, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal;(2) College of Technology, Tomar Polytechnic, Tomar, Portugal;(3) CEAUL, Lisbon, Portugal |
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Abstract: | In statistics of extremes, inference is often based on the excesses over a high random threshold. Those excesses are approximately distributed as the set of order statistics associated to a sample from a generalized Pareto model. We then get the so-called “maximum likelihood” estimators of the tail index γ. In this paper, we are interested in the derivation of the asymptotic distributional properties of a similar “maximum likelihood” estimator of a positive tail index γ, based also on the excesses over a high random threshold, but with a trial of accommodation of bias in the Pareto model underlying those excesses. We next proceed to an asymptotic comparison of the two estimators at their optimal levels. An illustration of the finite sample behaviour of the estimators is provided through a small-scale Monte Carlo simulation study. Research partially supported by FCT/POCTI and POCI/FEDER. |
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Keywords: | Statistics of extremes Semi-parametric estimation Generalized Pareto models Maximum likelihood estimation |
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