Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1148625 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference 2016 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

•We estimate extreme value index and extreme quantiles of a heavy-tailed distribution with covariates and censoring.•We prove asymptotic normality of our estimator of the conditional extreme value index.•We assess the finite-sample behavior of the proposed estimators via simulations.

Estimation of the extreme-value index of a heavy-tailed distribution is addressed when some random covariate information is available and the data are randomly right-censored. A weighted kernel version of Hill’s estimator of the extreme-value index is proposed and its asymptotic normality is established. Based on this, a Weissman-type estimator of conditional extreme quantiles is constructed. A simulation study is conducted to assess the finite-sample behavior of the proposed estimators.

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