Robust extreme quantile estimation for Pareto-type tails through an exponential regression model

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

Abstract

The estimation of extreme quantiles is one of the main objectives of statistics of extremes (which deals with the estimation of rare events). In this paper, a robust estimator of extreme quantile of a heavy-tailed distribution is considered. The estimator is obtained through the minimum density power divergence criterion on an exponential regression model. The proposed estimator was compared with two estimators of extreme quantiles in the literature in a simulation study. The results show that the proposed estimator is stable to the choice of the number of top order statistics and show lesser bias and mean square error compared to the existing extreme quantile estimators. Practical application of the proposed estimator is illustrated with data from the pedochemical and insurance industries.

First Page

531

Last Page

550

DOI

https://10.29220/CSAM.2023.30.6.531

Publication Date

1-1-2023

Comments

Open Access, Bronze, Green

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