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Multidimensional extremal dependence coefficients

Publication . Ferreira, Helena; Ferreira, Marta

Extreme value modeling has been attracting the attention of researchers in diverse areas such as the environment, engineering, and finance. Multivariate extreme value distributions are particularly suitable to model the tails of multidimensional phenomena. The analysis of the dependence among multivariate maxima is useful to evaluate risk. Here we present new multivariate extreme value models, as well as, coefficients to assess multivariate extremal dependence.

2018Journal article

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Analyzing the Gaver - Lewis Pareto Process under an Extremal Perspective

Publication . Ferreira, Marta; Ferreira, Helena

Pareto processes are suitable to model stationary heavy-tailed data. Here, we consider the auto-regressive Gaver–Lewis Pareto Process and address a study of the tail behavior. We characterize its local and long-range dependence. We will see that consecutive observations are asymptotically tail independent, a feature that is often misevaluated by the most common extremal models and with strong relevance to the tail inference. This also reveals clustering at “penultimate” levels. Linear correlation may not exist in a heavy-tailed context and an alternative diagnostic tool will be presented. The derived properties relate to the auto-regressive parameter of the process and will provide estimators. A comparison of the proposals is conducted through simulation and an application to a real dataset illustrates the procedure.

2017Journal article

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Estimating the extremal index through local dependence

Publication . Ferreira, Helena; Ferreira, Marta

The extremal index is an important parameter in the characterization of extreme values of a stationary sequence. Our new estimation approach for this parameter is based on the extremal behavior under the local dependence condition D(k)(un). We compare a process satisfying one of this hierarchy of increasingly weaker local mixing conditions with a process of cycles satisfying the D(2)(un) condition. We also analyze local dependence within moving maxima processes and derive a necessary and su cient condition for D(k)(un). In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed estimators, we apply an empirical diagnostic for local dependence conditions, we conduct a simulation study and compare with existing methods. An application to a nancial time series is also presented.

2018Journal article

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Asymptotic dependence of bivariate maxima

Publication . Ferreira, Helena; Ferreira, Marta

The Ledford and Tawn model for the bivariate tail incorporates a coefficient, η, as a measure of pre-asymptotic dependence between the marginals. However, in the limiting bivariate extreme value model, G, of suitably normalized component-wise maxima, it is just a shape parameter without reflecting any description of the dependency in G. Under some local dependence conditions,we consider an index that describes the pre-asymptotic dependence in this context. We analyze some particular cases considered in the literature and illustrate with examples. A small discussion on inference is presented at the end.

2018Journal article

Open access