Nonparametric estimation of the conditional tail index and extreme quantiles under random censoring

نویسندگان

  • Pathé Ndao
  • Aliou Diop
  • Jean-François Dupuy
چکیده

In this paper, we investigate the estimation of the tail index and extreme quantiles of a heavy-tailed distribution when some covariate information is available and the data are randomly right-censored. We construct several estimators by combining a moving-window technique (for tackling the covariate information) and the inverse probability-of-censoring weighting method, and we establish their asymptotic normality. A comprehensive simulation study is conducted to evaluate the finite-sample performance of the proposed estimators and to identify their application scope.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

دوره 79  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2014