TY - JOUR
T1 - Bias correction in conditional multivariate extremes
AU - Escobar-Bach, Mikael
AU - Goegebeur, Yuri
AU - Guillou, Armelle
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We consider bias-corrected estimation of the stable tail dependence function in the regression context. To this aim, we first estimate the bias of a smoothed estimator of the stable tail dependence function, and then we subtract it from the estimator. The weak convergence, as a stochastic process, of the resulting asymptotically unbiased estimator of the conditional stable tail dependence function, correctly normalized, is established under mild assumptions, the covariate argument being fixed. The finite sample behaviour of our asymptotically unbiased estimator is then illustrated on a simulation study and compared to two alternatives, which are not bias corrected. Finally, our methodology is applied to a dataset of air pollution measurements.
AB - We consider bias-corrected estimation of the stable tail dependence function in the regression context. To this aim, we first estimate the bias of a smoothed estimator of the stable tail dependence function, and then we subtract it from the estimator. The weak convergence, as a stochastic process, of the resulting asymptotically unbiased estimator of the conditional stable tail dependence function, correctly normalized, is established under mild assumptions, the covariate argument being fixed. The finite sample behaviour of our asymptotically unbiased estimator is then illustrated on a simulation study and compared to two alternatives, which are not bias corrected. Finally, our methodology is applied to a dataset of air pollution measurements.
KW - Bias correction
KW - Conditional stable tail dependence function
KW - Stochastic convergence
U2 - 10.1214/20-EJS1706
DO - 10.1214/20-EJS1706
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85090628904
VL - 14
SP - 1773
EP - 1795
JO - Electronic Journal of Statistics
JF - Electronic Journal of Statistics
ER -