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Asymptotic behaviour of the probability-weighted moments and penultimate approximation

Jean Diebolt, Armelle Guillou, Rym Worms (2003)

ESAIM: Probability and Statistics

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The P.O.T. (Peaks-Over-Threshold) approach consists of using the Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) to approximate the distribution of excesses over a threshold. We use the probability-weighted moments to estimate the parameters of the approximating distribution. We study the asymptotic behaviour of these estimators (in particular their asymptotic bias) and also the functional bias of the GPD as an estimate of the distribution function of the excesses. We adapt penultimate approximation...

What is the best approximation of ruin probability in infinite time?

Krzysztof Burnecki, Paweł Miśta, Aleksander Weron (2005)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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We compare 12 different approximations of ruin probability in infinite time studying typical light- and heavy-tailed claim size distributions, namely exponential, mixture of exponentials, gamma, lognormal, Weibull, loggamma, Pareto and Burr. We show that approximation based on the Pollaczek-Khinchin formula gives most accurate results, in fact it can be chosen as a reference method. We also introduce a promising modification to the De Vylder approximation.

A weighted version of Gamma distribution

Kanchan Jain, Neetu Singla, Rameshwar D. Gupta (2014)

Discussiones Mathematicae Probability and Statistics

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Weighted Gamma (WG), a weighted version of Gamma distribution, is introduced. The hazard function is increasing or upside-down bathtub depending upon the values of the parameters. This distribution can be obtained as a hidden upper truncation model. The expressions for the moment generating function and the moments are given. The non-linear equations for finding maximum likelihood estimators (MLEs) of parameters are provided and MLEs have been computed through simulations and also for...

A multimodal beta distribution with application to economic data

Saralees Nadarajah, Samuel Kotz (2007)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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Beta distributions are popular models for economic data. In this paper, a new multimodal beta distribution with bathtub shaped failure rate function is introduced. Various structural properties of this distribution are derived, including its cdf, moments, mean deviation about the mean, mean deviation about the median, entropy, asymptotic distribution of the extreme order statistics, maximum likelihood estimates and the Fisher information matrix. Finally, an application to consumer price...