SEMINAR UIMA Probability ad Statistics Group Departmet of Mathematics Uiversity Aveiro 25 Jue 2008 Some Thoughts o the Importace of Weighig the Tails Isabel Fraga Alves CEAUL & DEIO Uiversity Lisbo Cláudia Neves UIMA & DM Uiversity Aveiro Iês Farias Istituto de Ivestigação das Pescas e do Mar, Recursos Marihos e Sustetabilidade
Cotets Itroductio Prelimiaries ad otatio Testig extremes Parametric Approaches Aual Maxima (AM) Peaks Over Threshold (POT) Largest Observatios (LO) Semi-Parametric Approaches Testig EV Coditios PORT approach Three Tests Case studies fiacial / evirometal / risk i health scieces AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 2
Itroductio I aalysis of extreme large (or small) values it is of relevat importace the model assumptios o the right (or left) tail of the uderlyig distributio fuctio (d.f.) F to the sample data. We focus o the problem of extreme large values. By a obvious trasformatio, the problem of extreme small values is aalogous. Statistical iferece about rare evets ca clearly be deduced oly from those observatios which are extreme i some sese: classical Gumbel method of block of aual maxima (AM) peaks-over-threshold (POT) methods peaks-over-radom-threshold (PORT) methods. Statistical iferece is clearly improved if oe make a a priori statistical choice about the more appropriate tail decay for the uderlyig df: light tails with fiite right edpoit expoetial or polyomial This is supported by Extreme Value Theory (EVT). AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 3
Theory ad Extreme Values Aalysis Extreme Values Aalysis Models for Extreme Values, ot cetral values; modellig the tail of the uderlyig distributio Problem: How to make iferece beyod the sample data? Oe Aswer: use techiques based o EVT i such a way that it is possible to make statistical iferece about rare evets, usig oly a limited amout of data! Notatio: Sample ( X1, X 2, L, X ) iid r.v.'s with d. f. F( x). Tail of F F ( x) = P( X > x) = 1 F ( x). Order Statistics X X L X =: M 1, 2,, AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 4
The Basic Theory distributio of the Maximum [ 1 L ] [ ] L [ ] P[ M x] = P X x,, X x = P X x P X x = F Gedeko (1943) [ ] 1 ( x). a. s. Cosequetly, M xf, { x F x } with x = sup, ( ) < 1. Suppose there exist a >0 ad b R, such that P M a x + b G( x), for every x R F ( z) 1/ γ exp 1 + γ, para 1+ γz > 0, se γ 0 G( z) Gγ ( z) = exp( exp( z)), para z R, se γ = 0 F D( G γ ), γ R [GEV- Geeralized Extreme Value] vo Mises-Jekiso Represetatio AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 5
Extreme Value Distributios (max-stable) The GEV(γ) icorporates the 3 types:[fisher-tippett] Fréchet: limit for heavy tailed distributios Weibull: limit for short tailed distributios with Gumbel: α Φ α z = z z > α > ( ) exp( ( ) ), 0, 0; γ = 1 / α > 0 ( ) exp( ( ) ), 0, α 0; α Ψ α z = z z < > x F limit for expoetial tailed distributios < γ = 1 / α < 0 Λ ( z) = exp( exp( z)), z R. γ = 0 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 6
Theory of Regular Variatio & Extreme Value Theory AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 7
GEV(γ) 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0-4 -2 0 2 4 6 8 10 Gev(0.5)=Fréchet Gev(-0.5)=Weibull Gev(0)=Gumbel AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 8
Normal N(µ,σ) φ(x ) p.d.f. 68.27% µ x x µ σ µ+ σ AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 9
Normal N(µ,σ) φ(x ) p.d.f. 95.45% µ x x µ 2σ µ+ 2σ AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 10
Gumbel f (x ) p.d.f. 13.22% 72.37% 14.41% µ x µ σ µ+ σ AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 11
Gumbel f (x ) p.d.f. 0.07% 95.71% 4.22% µ x µ 2σ µ+ 2σ AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 12
Normal & Gumbel p.d.f. φ(x ) f (x ) x 7 6.5 6 5.5 5 4.5 4 3.5 3 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0-0.5-1 -1.5-2 -2.5-3 -3.5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 13
Normal & Gumbel d.f. 1 Φ(x ) 0.5 Λ( x ) 0 x 6.5 5.5 4.5 3.5 2.5 1.5 0.5-0.5-1.5-2.5-3.5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 14
0.4 Normal & Gumbel 0.3 0.2 0.1 Normal & Gumbel same mea values ad variaces 0-3 2 7 Normal Gumbel 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 Normal(0,1) & Gumbel stadard. 0-3 2 7 Gumbel Normal (0,1) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 15
Extremal Quatiles : Normal or Gumbel?? d.f.'s & e.d.f. (,, L, ) = (-1.5,-0.5,-0.2,0.1,0.2,0.5,0.8,0.9,1.3,2.1) x x x Model? 1:10 2:10 10:10 1 0.95 e.d.f. -3.5-2.5-1.5-0.5 0 0.5 1.5 Q0.95 2.5 3.5 4.5 x 5.5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 16
Extremal Quatiles : Normal or Gumbel?? f.d.'s e f.d.e. x x L x = Model? (,,, ) (-1.5,-0.5,-0.2,0.1,0.2,0.5,0.8,0.9,1.3,2.1) 1:10 2:10 10:10 1 e.d.f. 0.95 Λ( x ) Φ(x) 0 x -3.5-2.5-1.5-0.5 0.5 1.5 2.5 Q0.95 3.5 4.5 5.5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 17
Extremal Quatiles : Normal or Gumbel?? d.f.'s & e.d.f. (,, L, ) = (-1.5,-0.5,-0.2,0.1,0.2,0.5,0.8,0.9,1.3,2.1) x x x Model? 1:10 2:10 10:10 1 0.05 0.95 Φ(x) e.d.f. Λ( x ) Radom sample from Gumbel! -3.5-2.5-1.5-0.5 0 0.5 Φ -1 (0.95) Q0.95 1.5 2.5 Λ -1 (0.95) 3.5 4.5 x 5.5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 18
Tails AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 19
Heavy Tails, Tail idex & Momets AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 20
Heavy Tails, Tail idex & Momets F 1 D (G γ ), γ = > 0 α Heavy Tails γ < 1 2 fiite variace 1 2 < γ < 1 γ > mea value ifiite ifiite variace, mea value fiite 1 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 21
Super-Heavy tails (o fiite Momets) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 22
Light, Heavy & Super-Heavy tails (o fiite Momets) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 23
Parametric aproches Fittig GEV(γ) to Aual Maxima (AM) GUMBEL METHOD Iclusio of locatio λ ad scale δ parameters i GEV(γ) df γ tail idex (shape) x λ G γ ( x; λ, δ ) = G γ, λ R, δ > 0, γ R δ Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 24
Testig problem i GEV(γ) The shape parameter γ determies the weight of the tail Choice betwee Gumbel, Weibull or Fréchet { Gγ : γ = 0 } vs. { Gγ : γ 0 } Va Motfort (1970) Bardsley (1977) Otte ad Va Motfort (1978) Tiago de Oliveira (1981) Gomes (1982) Tiago de Oliveira (1984) Tiago de Oliveira ad Gomes (1984) Hoskig (1984) Maroh (1994) Wag, Cooke, ad Li (1996) Maroh (2000) or { G } γ γ < vs. : 0 { G } γ γ > vs. : 0 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 25
H γ Geeralized Pareto distributio GP(γ) -1/ γ x λ 1-1 + γ if γ 0 ( x; λ, δ ) = δ, λ R, δ > 0, 1- exp[ -( x λ) / δ ] if γ = 0 GP(γ) df icludes the models: Pareto: ( x ) for x 0 ad 1+ γ λ / δ 0 H ( x; λ, δ ) = 1+ log G ( x; λ, δ ) γ Beta: 2, Expoetial: α W ( x) = 1 x, α > 0, x 1 1, α α W ( x) = 1 ( x), α < 0, -1 x 0 α 0 γ Heavy Tail bouded support W ( x) = 1 exp( x), x 0 Expoetial tail AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 26
Excesses over high thresholds POT ( Peaks Over Thresholds ) Balkema-de Haa 74+Pickads 75 F D(G γ ) lim sup P X -u x X > u - Hγ ( x; δ ( u)) = 0 u 0 < x < x u F ( u + y ) = F ( u ) P X u > y X > u, y 0 F P X u > y X > u H γ ( y ; δ ( u )) u Excesses over u : X - u X > u i i AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 27
Testig problem i GP(γ) The shape parameter γ determies the weight of the tail Choice betwee Expoetial, Beta or Pareto Va Motfort ad Witter (1985) Gomes ad Va Motfort (1986) Brilhate (2004) Maroh (2000) AM & POT vs. { H : 0} = γ γ < or vs. { H : 0} γ γ > { Hγ : γ 0 } vs. { Hγ : γ 0 } Fittig GPdf to data Castillo ad Hadi (1997) Goodess-of-fit tests for GPdf model Choulakia ad Stephes (2001) Goodess-of-fit problem heavy tailed Pareto-type dfs Beirlat, de Wet ad Goegebeur (2006) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 28
Z k largest observatios of the sample: X X (1) X (2) X (3) X (4) λ ( L ) LO (Larger Observatios) X X L X (1) (2) ( k ) ( i) ( i) : =, i = 1, L, k δ g ( z ) f z,, z = g ( z ), z > > z, g ( z): = G ( z)/ z γ are modeled by joit pdf GEV(γ) - extremal process k 1 γ i 1 k γ k 1 L k γ γ i= 1 Gγ ( zi ) X (k) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 29
Testig problem i GEV(γ) GEV(γ)-extremal process The shape parameter γ determies the weight of the tail Choice betwee Gumbel, Weibull or Fréchet { Gγ : γ = 0 } vs. { Gγ : γ 0 } or { G } γ γ < vs. : 0 { G } γ γ > vs. : 0 Gomes ad Alpuim (1986) Gomes (1989) LO & AM Goodess-of-fit tests Gomes (1987) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 30
Semi-Parametric Approach Upper Order Statistics F D(G γ ) X k, upper itermediate o.s. X X L X, 1, k, k k( ), k / 0, X, X 1, X 2, X 3, X k, AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 31
Peaks Over Radom Threshold - PORT Z : = X i 1: X k:, i 1, L, k { } i + = Excesses Over Radom Threshold k: X Excesses over X Z : = X - X k : i i + 1: k: X k : AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 32
Testig Problem: Max-Domais of Attractio The shape parameter γ determies the weight of the tail Choice betwee Domais of Attractio F D(G ) vs. F D(G γ ) γ 0 0 or vs. F D(G ) γ vs. F D(G ) γ γ < 0 γ > 0 Galambos (1982) Castillo, Galambos ad Sarabia (1989) Hasofer ad Wag (1992) Falk (1995) Fraga Alves ad Gomes (1996) Fraga Alves (1999) Maroh (1998a,b) Segers ad Teugels (2000) PORT approach Neves, Picek ad Fraga Alves(2006) Neves ad Fraga Alves (2006) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 33
X X Testig EV coditios, 1, L X k, k, X upper itermediate o.s. F D(G γ ), for ay real γ Adapted Goodess-of-fit tests (Kolmogorov-Smirov & Cramér-vo Mises type) Dietrich, de Haa ad Husler (2002) Drees, de Haa ad Li (2006) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 34
PORT approach Three Tests for F D(G ) vs. F D(G ) 0 γ γ 0 X X, 1, L X Largest k k( ), k, Observatios k / 0, { Z : = X X i L, k} i i+ = 1, k,, 1, Excesses over the X Radom Threshold, k Defie the r-momet of Excesses 1 1 M : X : Z, k k ( r) = ( ) r + 1,, = r i X k i k i= 1 k i= 1 r = 1, 2 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 35
NPFA test statistic: Ratio betwee the Maximum ad the Mea of Excesses Z X X T ( k) = = M 1 : k: (1) (1) M Neves, Picek & FragaAlves 06 The distributio does NOT deped o the locatio ad scale Motivatio: differet behaviour of the ratio betwee the maximum ad the mea for light ad heavy tails AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 36
Gt test statistic: Greewood-type Statistic R ( k) (2) 1 k M k i= 1 = = Z 2 i ( ( 1) ) 2 ( ) 1 k M k Z i= 1 i 2 Motivatio: based o the statistic Greewood 46 (Neves & FragaAlves 06) The distributio does NOT deped o the locatio ad scale AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 37
W HW - test statistic: Hasofer ad Wag Statistic ( (1) M ) 1 1 1 ( k ) : = = 2 k M k R ( k ) 1 1 = k k 2 ( ( M ) ( 2 ) 1) ( ) 1 k k Z i = 1 i 2 ( ) k k Z i 1 i 1 k 2 1 Z i = 1 i = 2 (Hasofer & Wag 92; Neves & FragaAlves 06) The distributio does NOT deped o the locatio ad scale Motivatio: based o goodess-of-fit statistic Shapiro-Wilk 65 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 38
NPFA - Test at asymptotic level α uder H 0 + extra secod order coditios o the upper tail of F + extra coditios o covergece rate of k to ifiity T, : T log k * k = d k, G 0 Λ H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (bilateral) if: g ε : = l( l ε ) Gumbel quatile T < g T > g * * k, α 2 or k, 1 α 2 H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ > 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (heavy tails) if: T * k, > g1 α H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ < 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (short tails) if: * Tk, < g α AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 39
Exact Properties of NPFA, GT & HW - Tests A extesive simulatio study cocerig the proposed procedures, allows us to coclude that: The Gt-test is show to good advatage whe testig the presece of heavy-tailed distributios is i demad. While the Gt-test barely detects small egative values of γ, the HW-test is the most powerful test uder study cocerig alteratives i the Weibull domai of attractio. Sice the NPFA- test based o the very simple T-statistic teds to be a coservative test ad yet detais a reasoable power, this test proves to be a valuable complemet to the remaider procedures. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 40
uder H 0 + extra secod order coditios o the upper tail of F + extra coditios o covergece rate of k to ifiity Gt & HW - Tests at asymptotic level α H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (bilateral) if: R W * * ( ) ( ) ( k) : = k / 4 R ( k) 2 ( k) : = k / 4 kw ( k) 1 Gt HW - test - test N d (0,1) z : 1 ε = Φ ( ε ) ε - Normal quatile R ( k) > z * W ( k) > z * 1 α 2 1 α 2 H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ > 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (heavy tails) if: Gt - test HW - test R ( k) > z * * 1 α W ( k) < z 1 α H : F D(G ) vs. H : F D(G γ ) γ < 0 0 1 0 Reject H 0 (light tails) i favour of H 1 (short tails) if: Gt - test HW - test R ( k) < z * W ( k) > z * 1 α 1 α AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 41
Data 1 Fiacial data: stock idex log-returs EVT offers a powerful framework to characterize fiacial market crashes ad booms. The exact distributio of fiacial returs remais a ope questio. Heavy tails are cosistet with a variety of fiacial theories. I fiacial studies, the followig questio is relevat: are retur distributios symmetric i the tails? Differeces i the behavior of extreme positive ad egative tail movemets withi the same market costitute a poit of ivestigatio. The aforemetioed tests ca be see as a first test for symmetry betwee the positive ad egative tails of the log-returs of some stock idex. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 42
Data 1 S&P500: left ad right tails of stock idex log-returs S&P500 data: =6985 observatios series of closig prices, {S i, i = 1,, } of S&P500 stock idex take from 4 Jauary, 1960 up to Friday, 16 October, 1987 (the last tradig day before the crash of Black Moday, October 19, 1987 ), from which we use the daily log-returs (assumed to be statioary ad weakly depedet). Study left tail of the distributio of the returs: egative log-returs, i.e., L i := log (S i+1 / S i ), i = 1,, -1. Study right tail of the distributio of the returs: positive log-returs, defied as X i := log (S i+1 / S i )= L i, i = 1,, -1. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 43
S&P500: percetage log-returs X i := log (S i+1 / S i ) S&P500 (log-returs, 5 Ja 60-16 Oct 87) X i 6 4 2 0-2 -4-6 -8 1/12/1988 1/11/1986 1/11/1984 1/10/1982 1/10/1980 1/9/1978 1/9/1976 1/8/1974 1/8/1972 1/7/1970 1/7/1968 1/6/1966 1/6/1964 1/5/1962 1/5/1960 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 44
Sample paths of the statistics T*, R* ad W*, plotted agaist k = 5,, 1200, applied to S&P500: egative log-returs L i := log (S i+1 / S i ) 6 5 4 3 2 1 0-1 -2-3 S&P500 (Left tail) NPFA-test Gt-test HW-test k 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 g 0.95 z 0.95 z 0.05 T* R* W* F (G γ ), γ > 0 L D Fre chet Domai, Heavy Tail! AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 45
Sample paths of the statistics T*, R* ad W*, plotted agaist k = 5,, 1200, applied to S&P500: positive log-returs X i := log (S i+1 / S i ) 6 5 4 3 2 1 0-1 -2-3 k 0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200 0 S&P500 (Right tail) g 0.975 z 0.975 Gt-test NPFA-test HW-test g 0.025 z 0.025 T* R* W* FX D(G ), Gumbel Domai, light/expoetial Tail! AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 46
S&P500: left ad right tails of stock idex log-returs NPFA, HW ad Gt testig procedures uder the PORT approach yielded the sample paths plots preseted. This aalysis suggests the cosideratio of the Fréchet ad Gumbel domais of attractio, respectively, for the left ad right tails of the returs distributio. This may have the followig iterpretatio: i this stock idex the crashes are much more likely tha large gai values. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 47
Data 2 & Data 3 Evirometal data Bilbao 179 observatios zero-crossig hourly mea periods (i secods) of the sea waves, measured i a Bilbao buoy, Jauary 1997 - Maritime Climate Program of CEDEX, Spai. (ifluece of periods o beach morphodyamics ad other problems related to the right tail of the uderlyig distributio) I de Zea Bermudez & Amaral-Turkma (2003) a estimatio procedure for the parameter of the GPd built uder a Bayesia perspective. Therei the authors alert for the sigificat advatage that might derive from discrimiatig the proper domai of attractio. Ozoo 731 observatios ambiet ozoe levels (i parts per billio) that were recorded hourly by betwee 9 ad 12 statios i Harris Couty from 1980-1993. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 48
Bilbao wave data F D(G γ ), γ < 0! Sample : ( = 179) g0.05 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 49
Ozoe data F D(G γ ), γ = 0! Sample : ( = 731) g 0.0 2 5 -z 0.975 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 50
Data 4 risk i health scieces data: Cotamiat metals (cadmium(cd) & lead(pb)) black fish-sword or black scabbard fish (Aphaopus carbo) PROBLEM: Risk of populatio exposed to high levels of cotamiat metals (Cd & Pb) i black scabbard fish. Cadmium & Lead cocetratios were measured (mg/kg wet weight ) i Aphaopus carbo, caught off Sesimbra(=130), Madeira(=24) ad Azores(=26) archipelagos. Europea limits for cadmium (Cd = 0.05mg/kg) ad lead (Pb = 0.3 mg/kg), defied by Europea Commuity Regulatio 78/2005 (EU, 2005). I some studies ad accordig to the permissible WHO ad FAO levels, this species does ot represet a risk for huma cosumptio if the liver is excluded ad the edible part cosumed with moderatio. QUESTION: What is the probability of exceedig EU limits for the 3 regios? FRAMEWORK: Iferece Statistics (Tail Probability) for Extreme Values. AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 51
Tail Probability Estimatio Give a large value x, estimatio of p = 1 F( x) p = p, x = x, p = 1 F( x ) 0, as., k X upper itermediate o.s. k k, k / 0, 1/ γ k x X k, 1 + γ, γ 0 x X k, a( / k) 1 F( x ) ( 1 F( X k, ) ) 1 Hγ. a( / k) k x X k, exp, γ = 0 a( / k) AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 52
Tail Probability Estimatio γ ˆ γ a( / k) aˆ ( / k) pˆ 1/ ˆ γ k x X + ˆ γ γ aˆ( / k) k x X k, exp, γ = 0 aˆ( / k) k, max 0, 1, 0 For heavy tails the expressio specializes k x pˆ : = X k, 1/ ˆ γ AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 53
Data 4 risk i health scieces data: Cadmium Madeira (=24) Estimatio γ 0,5 0-0,5 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 k Mometos -1-1,5-2 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 54
Data 4 risk i health scieces data: Cadmium Madeira (=24) Statistical Choice (EVT TRILEMMA) 5 4 3 2 RATIO Greewood Hasofer-Wag g_0.025 quatil da Gumbel g_0.975 quatil da Gumbel z_0.025 quatil da Normal z_0.975 quatil da Normal 1 0-1 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 k -2-3 AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 55
Data 4 risk i health scieces data: Cadmium Madeira (=24) Tail Probability ( EVT TRILEMMA - "a priori" fixed sig g <0 or γ =0 or γ >0) 0,0099 pmeg pm0 pmpos -0,0001 5 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 k AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 56
Data 4 risk i health scieces data: Cadmium Madeira (=24) Tail Probability (sequetial procedure accordig to EVT TRILEM M A coditioal o k ) 0,00099 pgr pratio phw -0,00001 5 10 15 20 25 k AVEIRO, Jue 25, 2008 57
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