extremefit: A Package for Extreme Quantiles

extremefit is a package to estimate the extreme quantiles and probabilities of rare events. The idea of our approach is to adjust the tail of the distribution function over a threshold with a Pareto distribution. We propose a pointwise data driven procedure to choose the threshold. To illustrate the...

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Main Authors: Gilles Durrieu, Ion Grama, Kevin Jaunatre, Quang-Khoai Pham, Jean-Marie Tricot
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/2956