期刊
JOURNAL OF APPLIED STATISTICS
卷 48, 期 7, 页码 1199-1226出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2020.1757046
关键词
L-moments; parameter and quantile estimation; confidence interval; generalized Pareto distribution; generalized extreme-value distribution
资金
- Czech Science Foundation [18-01137S]
- StudentGrant Competition at the TechnicalUniversity of Liberec [21256, 21320]
The paper introduces the concept of L-moments and their application in statistical inference. It shows that L-moments perform well in estimating population parameters and quantiles, especially for heavy-tailed distributions with small sample sizes.
In a ground-breaking paper published in 1990 by the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, J.R.M. Hosking defined the L-moment of a random variable as an expectation of certain linear combinations of order statistics. L-moments are an alternative to conventional moments and recently they have been used often in inferential statistics. L-moments have several advantages over the conventional moments, including robustness to the the presence of outliers, which may lead to more accurate estimates in some cases as the characteristics of distributions. In this contribution, asymptotic theory and L-moments are used to derive confidence intervals of the population parameters and quantiles of the three-parametric generalized Pareto and extreme-value distributions. Computer simulations are performed to determine the performance of confidence intervals for the population quantiles based on L-moments and to compare them to those obtained by traditional estimation techniques. The results obtained show that they perform well in comparison to the moments and maximum likelihood methods when the interest is in higher quantiles, or even best. L-moments are especially recommended when the tail of the distribution is rather heavier and the sample size is small. The derived intervals are applied to real economic data, and specifically to market-opening asset prices.
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