Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6868951 | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis | 2016 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
Bayesian estimation of the tail index of a heavy-tailed distribution is addressed when data are randomly right-censored. Maximum a posteriori and mean posterior estimators are constructed for various prior distributions of the tail index. Convergence of the posterior distribution of the tail index to a Gaussian distribution is established. Finite-sample properties of the proposed estimators are investigated via simulations. Tail index estimation requires selecting an appropriate threshold for constructing relative excesses. A Monte Carlo procedure is proposed for tackling this issue. Finally, the proposed estimators are illustrated on a medical dataset.
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Authors
Abdelkader Ameraoui, Kamal Boukhetala, Jean-François Dupuy,