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On the compound Poisson limit for high level exceedances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2016

Jonathan Cohen
Jonathan Cohen*
Affiliation:
University of Kentucky
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∗Present address: Systems Applications Inc., 101 Lucas Valley Road, San Rafael, CA 94903, USA.
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Abstract

Let ∊1∊2, · ··, be a stationary sequence satisfying the weak long-range dependence condition Δ (un(τ)) of [3] for every τ > 0, where nP(∊1> un(τ))→ τ. Assume only that P (there are j exceedances of un(τ) by ∊1, ∊2, · ··, ∊n) converges for all j with 0≦j≦υ<∞ and a given fixedτ. Then the same holds for every τ> 0. For 0≦j≦υ the limit is P(X = j) where X is compound Poisson and the multiplicity distribution is independent ofτ. These results are extended to more general levels un and to cases where the joint distribution of the numbers of exceedances of several levels is considered. The limiting distributions of linearly normalized extreme order statistics are derived as a corollary. An application to insurance claim data is discussed.

Keywords

EXTREME VALUE THEORYCOMPOUND POISSON DISTRIBUTION
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 26 , Issue 3 , September 1989 , pp. 458 - 465
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1989 

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