Representations and limit theorems for extreme value distributions

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hall

LetXn1≦Xn2≦ ··· ≦Xnndenote the order statistics from a sample ofnindependent, identically distributed random variables, and suppose that the variablesXnn, Xn,n–1, ···, when suitably normalized, have a non-trivial limiting joint distributionξ1,ξ2, ···, asn → ∞. It is well known that the limiting distribution must be one of just three types. We provide a canonical representation of the stochastic process {ξn,n≧ 1} in terms of exponential variables, and use this representation to obtain limit theorems forξnasn →∞.

1978 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 639-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Hall

Let Xn1 ≦ Xn2 ≦ ··· ≦ Xnn denote the order statistics from a sample of n independent, identically distributed random variables, and suppose that the variables Xnn, Xn, n–1, ···, when suitably normalized, have a non-trivial limiting joint distribution ξ1, ξ2, ···, as n → ∞. It is well known that the limiting distribution must be one of just three types. We provide a canonical representation of the stochastic process {ξn, n ≧ 1} in terms of exponential variables, and use this representation to obtain limit theorems for ξ n as n →∞.


Author(s):  
C. W. Anderson

Let , where the Xi, i = 1, 2, … are independent identically distributed random variables. Classical extreme value theory, described for example in the books of do Haan(6) and Galambos(3) gives conditions under which there exist constants an > 0 and bn such thatwhere G(x) is taken to be one of the extreme value distributions G1(x) = exp (− e−x), G2(x) = exp (− x−a) (x > 0, α > 0) and G3(x) = exp (−(− x)α) (x < 0, α > 0).


1958 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 222-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. Blum ◽  
H. Chernoff ◽  
M. Rosenblatt ◽  
H. Teicher

Let {Xn} (n = 1, 2 , …) be a stochastic process. The random variables comprising it or the process itself will be said to be interchangeable if, for any choice of distinct positive integers i 1, i 2, H 3 … , ik, the joint distribution of depends merely on k and is independent of the integers i 1, i 2, … , i k. It was shown by De Finetti (3) that the probability measure for any interchangeable process is a mixture of probability measures of processes each consisting of independent and identically distributed random variables.


2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Kolev ◽  
Jayme Pinto

We construct and characterize bivariate extreme value distributions with exponential marginals generated by the stochastic representation (X1,X2) = (min(T1,T3), min(T2,T3)) where the random variable T3 is independent of random variables T1 and T2 which are assumed to be  dependent. A building procedure is suggested when the joint distribution of  (T1,T2) is absolutely continuous and Ti's are not necessarily exponentially distributed, i=1,2,3. The  Pickands representation of the vector (X1,X2) is computed. We illustrate the general relations by examples.


2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-67
Author(s):  
Ibrahim A. Ahmad ◽  
A. R. Mugdadi

For a sequence of independent, identically distributed random variable (iid rv's) [Formula: see text] and a sequence of integer-valued random variables [Formula: see text], define the random quantiles as [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] denote the largest integer less than or equal to [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text] the [Formula: see text]th order statistic in a sample [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. In this note, the limiting distribution and its exact order approximation are obtained for [Formula: see text]. The limiting distribution result we obtain extends the work of several including Wretman[Formula: see text]. The exact order of normal approximation generalizes the fixed sample size results of Reiss[Formula: see text]. AMS 2000 subject classification: 60F12; 60F05; 62G30.


2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 144
Author(s):  
Modou Ngom ◽  
Gane Samb Lo

<div>Let $X_{1,n} \leq .... \leq X_{n,n}$ be the order statistics associated with a sample $X_{1}, ...., X_{n}$ whose pertaining distribution function (\textit{df}) is $F$. We are concerned with the functional asymptotic behaviour of the sequence of stochastic processes</div><div> </div><div>\begin{equation}<br />T_{n}(f,s)=\sum_{j=1}^{j=k}f(j)\left( \log X_{n-j+1,n}-\log<br />X_{n-j,n}\right)^{s} ,  \label{fme}<br />\end{equation}</div><div> </div><div>indexed by some classes $\mathcal{F}$ of functions $f:\mathbb{N}%^{\ast}\longmapsto \mathbb{R}_{+}$ and $s \in ]0,+\infty[$ and where $k=k(n)$ satisfies</div><div> </div><div>\begin{equation*}<br />1\leq k\leq n,k/n\rightarrow 0\text{ as }n\rightarrow \infty .<br />\end{equation*}</div><div> </div><div>We show that this is a stochastic process whose margins generate estimators of the extreme value index when $F$ is in the extreme domain of attraction. We focus in this paper on its finite-dimension asymptotic law and provide a class of new estimators of the extreme value index whose performances are compared to analogous ones. The results are next particularized for one explicit class $\mathcal{F}$.</div>


2003 ◽  
Vol 40 (01) ◽  
pp. 226-241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunder Sethuraman

Let X 1, X 2, …, X n be a sequence of independent, identically distributed positive integer random variables with distribution function F. Anderson (1970) proved a variant of the law of large numbers by showing that the sample maximum moves asymptotically on two values if and only if F satisfies a ‘clustering’ condition, In this article, we generalize Anderson's result and show that it is robust by proving that, for any r ≥ 0, the sample maximum and other extremes asymptotically cluster on r + 2 values if and only if Together with previous work which considered other asymptotic properties of these sample extremes, a more detailed asymptotic clustering structure for discrete order statistics is presented.


2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (01) ◽  
pp. 159-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Bachmann

Consider a branching random walk in which each particle has a random number (one or more) of offspring particles that are displaced independently of each other according to a logconcave density. Under mild additional assumptions, we obtain the following results: the minimal position in the nth generation, adjusted by its α-quantile, converges weakly to a non-degenerate limiting distribution. There also exists a ‘conditional limit’ of the adjusted minimal position, which has a (Gumbel) extreme value distribution delayed by a random time-lag. Consequently, the unconditional limiting distribution is a mixture of extreme value distributions.


1975 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 289-297
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Barbour

LetX(t) be a continuous time Markov process on the integers such that, ifσis a time at whichXmakes a jump,X(σ)– X(σ–) is distributed independently ofX(σ–), and has finite meanμand variance. Letq(j) denote the residence time parameter for the statej.Iftndenotes the time of thenth jump andXn≡X(tb), it is easy to deduce limit theorems forfrom those for sums of independent identically distributed random variables. In this paper, it is shown how, forμ&gt; 0 and for suitableq(·), these theorems can be translated into limit theorems forX(t), by using the continuous mapping theorem.


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