Statistics – Methodology
Scientific paper
2010-05-24
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, 2009
Statistics
Methodology
Scientific paper
10.1002/asmb.764
This paper addresses the problem of estimating the tail index of distributions with heavy, Pareto-type tails for dependent data, that is of interest in the areas of finance, insurance, environmental monitoring and teletraffic analysis. A novel approach based on the max self-similarity scaling behavior of block maxima is introduced. The method exploits the increasing lack of dependence of maxima over large size blocks, which proves useful for time series data. We establish the consistency and asymptotic normality of the proposed max-spectrum estimator for a large class of m-dependent time series, in the regime of intermediate block-maxima. In the regime of large block-maxima, we demonstrate the distributional consistency of the estimator for a broad range of time series models including linear processes. The max-spectrum estimator is a robust and computationally efficient tool, which provides a novel time-scale perspective to the estimation of the tail--exponents. Its performance is illustrated over synthetic and real data sets.
Michailidis George
Stoev Stilian A.
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