• Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures ," Cahiers de la Maison des Sciences Economiques v04100, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1). (repec.org)
  • Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures ," Journal of Econometrics , Elsevier, vol. 141(1), pages 141-166, November. (repec.org)
  • Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures ," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) halshs-00175929, HAL. (repec.org)
  • Asymptotic And Bootstrap Inference For Inequality And Poverty Measures ," Departmental Working Papers 2005-06, McGill University, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • Statistical Inference for the Measurement of the Incidence of Taxes and Transfers ," Papers 9521, Laval - Recherche en Politique Economique. (repec.org)
  • We study statistical inference for the optimal transport (OT) map (also known as the Brenier map) from a known absolutely continuous reference distribution onto an unknown finitely discrete target distribution. (lse.ac.uk)
  • We also discuss applications of our limit theorems to the construction of confidence sets for the OT map and inference for a maximum tail correlation. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Simulation results show that size correct inference can be obtained with our proposed methods despite heavy tails if the underlying distributions are sufficiently close in the upper tails. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • We present asymptotic formulas for the distribution tails of probably the most commonly used statistical tests under non-normality, dependence, and non-homogeneity, and derive bounds on the absolute and relative errors of the approximations. (gu.se)
  • The former has a non-Gaussian limit, whose explicit density is derived, while the latter attains asymptotic normality. (lse.ac.uk)
  • 2011) for optimal testing for normality against Pareto tail. (isiproceedings.org)
  • We will show how to construct a robust, distribution sensitive heavy tail estimator and prove the asymptotic normality, weak and strong consistency together with its good small sample properties. (isiproceedings.org)
  • Small sample robust testing for Normality against Pareto tails, JSPI, accepted. (isiproceedings.org)
  • For large enough n , {\displaystyle n,} the distribution of X ¯ n {\displaystyle {\bar {X}}_{n}} gets arbitrarily close to the normal distribution with mean μ {\displaystyle \mu } and variance σ 2 / n . {\displaystyle \sigma ^{2}/n. (wikipedia.org)
  • This variance to mean power law is an inherent feature of a family of statistical distributions called the Tweedie exponential dispersion models . (wikipedia.org)
  • Much as the central limit theorem explains how certain types of random data converge towards the form of a normal distribution there exists a related theorem, the Tweedie convergence theorem that explains how other types of random data will converge towards the form of these Tweedie distributions, and consequently express both the variance to mean power law and a power law decay in their autocorrelation functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under mild conditions, we obtain the asymptotic variance and the Central Limit Theorem for the winding number as the time horizon tends to infinity. (projecteuclid.org)
  • If the parametric model is correctly specified, it is furthermore shown that the asymptotic variance-covariance matrix equals the Cramér-Rao bound. (repec.org)
  • Asymptotic consistency with non-zero asymptotic variance - what does it represent? (stackexchange.com)
  • The variance gets larger for percentiles in the far tails. (stackexchange.com)
  • First, we derive the asymptotic null distribution of the familiar augmented Dickey-Fuller [ADF] statistics in the case where the shocks follow a linear process driven by in…nite variance innovations. (unibo.it)
  • We show that these distributions are free of serial correlation nuisance parameters but depend on the tail index of the in…nite variance process. (unibo.it)
  • These distributions are shown to coincide with the corresponding results for the case where the shocks follow a …nite autoregression, provided the lag length in the ADF regression satis…es the same o(T1=3) rate condition as is required in the …nite variance case. (unibo.it)
  • A long-tailed or heavy-tailed distribution is one that assigns relatively high probabilities to regions far from the mean or median. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the context of teletraffic engineering a number of quantities of interest have been shown to have a long-tailed distribution . (wikipedia.org)
  • When the error term is long-tailed distributions or distribution with infinity moments , the proposed estimator perform well. (deepai.org)
  • In this work we derive a master equation for the node degree distribution of networks growing via Duplication and Divergence and we obtain an expression for the total number of links and for the degree distribution as a function of the number of nodes. (arxiv.org)
  • In particular, we derive the asymptotic distribution of the sequence of interarrival times between set completions. (cambridge.org)
  • We derive limit distributions for the integral and linear functionals of the empirical OT map, together with their moment convergence. (lse.ac.uk)
  • J.M. Harrison and J.J. Hasenbein, Reflected Brownian motion in the quadrant: Tail behavior of the stationary distribution. (esaim-ps.org)
  • Using algebra tools we investigate the degree distribution asymptotic behavior. (arxiv.org)
  • It enables us to extrapolate the distribution tail behavior from the largest observed data (the extreme values of the sample). (123dok.net)
  • While there is a rich theory of SGDm for convex problems, the theory is considerably less developed in the context of deep learning where the problem is non-convex and the gradient noise might exhibit a heavy-tailed behavior, as empirically observed in recent studies. (icml.cc)
  • This behavior is analyzed by explicit analytical expressions for the asymptotic solute breakthrough curves. (hal.science)
  • We only consider the light tailed case, that is, when the tail probabilities of the stationary distributions decay exponentially fast, and look at the problems in a different way. (utoronto.ca)
  • Furthermore, its usage is theoretically validated: for light-tailed job size distributions, FCFS has weakly optimal asymptotic tail of response time. (deepai.org)
  • We prove that Nudge simultaneously improves upon FCFS at every point along the tail, for light-tailed job size distributions. (deepai.org)
  • P. Dupuis and K. Ramanan, A time-reversed representation for the tail probabilities of stationary reflected Brownian motion. (esaim-ps.org)
  • With help of them, we consider the asymptotic tail probabilities through their moment generating functions. (utoronto.ca)
  • In this work, we provide robust bounds on the tail probabilities and the. (deepai.org)
  • In many fields (financial analysis, climatology, decision making, structural reliability and safety engineering) special attention is devoted to the modelling of distribution tails, in particular upper tails, and the estimation of occurrence probabilities of rare events. (123dok.net)
  • Hence, in general failure probabilities are sensitive to the upper tail of some of the distributions used in the modelling process. (123dok.net)
  • Exponential family techniques for the lognormal left tail. (acems.org.au)
  • The distribution is an exponential function of distance which expands superdiffusively, with the mean-square displacement increasing with time as t 2 /ln (2D+4/D) (t) in D dimensions. (mst.edu)
  • In addition, we establish the rates of consistency and (where they exist) the asymptotic distributions of the ordinary least squares sieve estimates from the ADF regression. (unibo.it)
  • Under the assumption of symmetry, we demonstrate the asymptotic validity (bootstrap consistency) of the wild bootstrap ADF tests. (unibo.it)
  • We will discuss recent results on the asymptotic behaviour of certain Toeplitz and Fredholm determinants appearing in the theory of random matrices and related areas focusing on the situation where a transition between $2$ different asymptotic regimes takes place. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Asymptotic tail behaviour of phase-type scale mixture distributions. (acems.org.au)
  • Tail averaging improves on Polyak averaging's non-asymptotic behaviour b. (deepai.org)
  • J.G. Dai and M. Miyazawa, Reflecting Brownian motion in two dimensions: exact asymptotics for the stationary distribution. (esaim-ps.org)
  • H. Li and Y.Q. Zhao, Tail asymptotics for a generalized two-dimensional queueing model - a kernel method. (esaim-ps.org)
  • H. Li and Y.Q. Zhao, A kernel method for exact tail asymptotics-random walks in the quarter plane. (esaim-ps.org)
  • M. Miyazawa and T. Rolski, Tail asymptotics for a Lévy-driven tandem queue with an intermediate input. (esaim-ps.org)
  • We investigate the tail asymptotics of the response time distribution fo. (deepai.org)
  • We observe clear power-law tails of the solute breakthrough for broad (power-law) distributions of particle transit times (heterogeneous advection) and particle trapping times (MRMT model). (hal.science)
  • This yields a simple analytical formula for the model assortativity, and opens up ways to analyze rank correlation coefficients suitable for random graphs with heavy-tailed degree distributions. (arxiv.org)
  • However, difference in these parameters results in a slower rate of convergence and in different degree distributions. (arxiv.org)
  • In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) establishes that, in many situations, for independent and identically distributed random variables, the sampling distribution of the standardized sample mean tends towards the standard normal distribution even if the original variables themselves are not normally distributed. (wikipedia.org)
  • If this procedure is performed many times, resulting in a collection of observed averages, the central limit theorem says that if the sample size was large enough, the probability distribution of these averages will closely approximate a normal distribution. (wikipedia.org)
  • This talk discusses the distribution of resonance widths in quantum chaotic systems weakly coupled to the continuum via a finite number $M$ of open channels. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • The subsequent intermittent transfer of the survival probability from small trap-free regions to larger trap-free regions is described as a time-directed variable range hopping among localized eigenstates in the Lifshitz tail. (mst.edu)
  • Hill (1975) derived a procedure of Pareto tail estimation by the MLE. (isiproceedings.org)
  • 2010)). In Fabián and Stehlík (2010) we understand "The Hill estimator" as a specific procedure for studying of the Pareto tail. (isiproceedings.org)
  • For the case of Pareto distribution, the Hill estimator procedure with the score moment estimator has been investigated in Stehlík et al. (isiproceedings.org)
  • We exhibit parametric conditional maximum likelihood estimators for the full distribution, develop maximum likelihood tail estimation methods based on a semi-parametric generalized Pareto model, and propose goodness of fit plots. (zholud.com)
  • Top incomes are often related to Pareto distribution. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • To date, economists have mostly used Pareto Type I distribution to model the upper tail of income and wealth distribution. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • In this paper, we first show that modeling top incomes with Pareto Type I distribution can lead to biased estimation of inequality, even with millions of observations. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Then, we show that the Generalized Pareto distribution and, even more, the Extended Pareto distribution, are much less sensitive to the choice of the threshold. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Nevertheless, in practice, distributions are (strictly) Pareto only in the tails, above (possible very) large threshold. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • In this article, we present how to go from a strict Pareto model to Pareto-type distributions. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Approximation of heavy-tailed distributions via infinite dimensional phase-type dis- tributions with an application in risk. (acems.org.au)
  • Finally, we discuss asymptotic efficiency of the empirical OT map in an infinite dimensional setting. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The adequacy of both approaches to estimate the flow distributions is checked against two real Internet traces. (utl.pt)
  • This paper derives and analyzes continuous time random walk (CTRW) models in radial flow geometries for the quantification of non-local solute transport induced by heterogeneous flow distributions and by mobile-immobile mass transfer processes. (hal.science)
  • The theorem is a key concept in probability theory because it implies that probabilistic and statistical methods that work for normal distributions can be applicable to many problems involving other types of distributions. (wikipedia.org)
  • They are both normal distributions. (stackexchange.com)
  • For the duration distribution, in particular, both approaches require modeling the structure of flows, with the duration distribution being characterized in terms of the IATs (interarrival times between packets) and size distributions of a flow. (utl.pt)
  • Heavy-tailed refers to a probability distribution, and long-range dependent refers to a property of a time series and so these should be used with care and a distinction should be made. (wikipedia.org)
  • At long times, the spatial probability distribution becomes strongly localized in a sequence of trap-free regions. (mst.edu)
  • When $n$ and $m$ are large and of the same order of magnitude, the model admits a sparse limiting regime with a tunable power-law degree distribution and nonvanishing clustering coefficient. (arxiv.org)
  • In the asymptotic regime, our discrete approach is equivalent to the continuous one studied previously in the literature and our main result extends the existing ones. (projecteuclid.org)
  • Outside of the asymptotic regime, only loose bounds on the tail of FCFS are known, and optimality is completely open. (deepai.org)
  • An intermediate regime, in which the solute breakthrough is dominated by the particle transit times in the mobile zones, and a late time regime that is governed by the distribution of particle trapping times in immobile zones. (hal.science)
  • This article presents an asymptotic formula for the joint degree distribution of adjacent nodes. (arxiv.org)
  • The earliest version of this theorem, that the normal distribution may be used as an approximation to the binomial distribution, is the de Moivre-Laplace theorem. (wikipedia.org)
  • As n becomes large, this dependence becomes less of an issue (not least because you can invoke the CLT for the numerator and use Slutsky's theorem to say than there's an asymptotic normal distribution for the modified statistic). (stackexchange.com)
  • Given the dependence of their null distributions on the unknown tail index, our second contribution is to explore sieve wild bootstrap implementations of the ADF tests. (unibo.it)
  • The terms are distinct although superpositions of samples from heavy-tailed distributions aggregate to form long-range dependent time series. (wikipedia.org)
  • We investigate the reasons for the poor performance of the bootstrap, and find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality indices to the exact nature of the upper tail of the income distribution. (repec.org)
  • In this study, we consider a \emph{continuous-time} variant of SGDm, known as the underdamped Langevin dynamics (ULD), and investigate its asymptotic properties under heavy-tailed perturbations. (icml.cc)
  • In order to check that a parametric model provides acceptable tail approx- imations, we present a test which compares the parametric estimate of an extreme upper quantile with its semiparametric estimate obtained by extreme value theory. (123dok.net)
  • It is a parametric distribution, with interesting properties, that can be easily linked to economic theory. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Such systems may sometimes be extended into the transfinite, and such extensions can be used to prove asymptotic properties about the original finitary system. (cas.cz)
  • As a remedy, we develop a novel framework, which we coin as \emph{fractional} ULD (FULD), and prove that FULD targets the so-called Gibbs distribution, whose optima exactly match the optima of the original cost. (icml.cc)
  • We analyze finite-sample and asymptotic conditions for the validity of the proposed methods, and we introduce a convenient rescaling to improve finite-sample performance. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • The simulation was made realistic by starting tumor growth according to a Poisson process, including a distribution for clinical detection size and a screening test sensitivity function, and using an individual growth rate, based on estimates of Weedon-Fekjær et al. (ndltd.org)
  • they will not be identical even if our model is correctly specified - after all, the model is giving us the predicted mean of the Poisson distribution that the observation follows. (thestatsgeek.com)
  • When Does the Gittins Policy Have Asymptotically Optimal Response Time Tail? (deepai.org)
  • The proposed estimator is consistent and has asymptotic distribution under mild conditions without the knowledge of the form of link function. (deepai.org)
  • This leads us to study two non-standard bootstraps, the m out of n bootstrap, which is valid in some situations where the standard bootstrap fails, and a bootstrap in which the upper tail is modelled parametrically. (repec.org)
  • P. Lieshout and M. Mandjes, Asymptotic analysis of Lévy-driven tandem queues. (esaim-ps.org)
  • Nevertheless, the model is able to give a good description of general final-state properties such as multiplicity and transverse momentum distributions both in pA and AA, as well as in pp. (lu.se)
  • Since the deviance can be derived as the profile likelihood ratio test comparing the current model to the saturated model, likelihood theory would predict that (assuming the model is correctly specified) the deviance follows a chi-squared distribution, with degrees of freedom equal to the difference in the number of parameters. (thestatsgeek.com)
  • Tail estimation methods for the number of false positives in high-throughput testing. (gu.se)
  • We show that to the leading order in weak coupling the perturbative $\chi$-square distribution of the resonance widths (in particular, the Porter-Thomas distribution at $M=1$) should be corrected by a factor related to a certain average of the ratio of square roots of the characteristic polynomial ('spectral determinant') of the underlying RMT Hamiltonian. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Income distribution and inequality measurement: The problem of extreme values ," Journal of Econometrics , Elsevier, vol. 141(2), pages 1044-1072, December. (repec.org)
  • Specifically, maximum inequality can be given by the distribution which is the most concentrated in the top or bottom category, or by the uniform distribution. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Asymptotic and bootstrap tests for inequality measures are known to perform poorly in finite samples when the underlying distribution is heavy-tailed. (amse-aixmarseille.fr)
  • Consequently, a bootstrap sample in which nothing is resampled from the tail can have properties very different from those of the population. (repec.org)
  • This is done by establishing that (conditional on the data) the wild bootstrap ADF statistics attain the same limiting distribution as that of the original ADF statistics taken conditional on the magnitude of the innovations. (unibo.it)
  • The more different these parameters are, the denser the tail of the distribution. (arxiv.org)
  • As you might guess from the histogram, the distribution of the 95th percentile of a sufficiently large sample is approximately normal. (stackexchange.com)
  • convergence of the mean to the normal distribution also occurs for non-identical distributions or for non-independent observations if they comply with certain conditions. (wikipedia.org)
  • The convergence is in the sense of finite-dimensional distributions, and also of space-time random fields (tightness does not hold in the usual Skorohod topology). (projecteuclid.org)
  • S. Franceschi and I. Kurkova, Asymptotic expansion of stationary distribution for reflected Brownian motion in the quarter plane via analytic approach. (esaim-ps.org)
  • This paper develops methods to estimate the tail and full distribution of the lengths of the 0-intervals in a continuous time stationary ergodic stochastic process which takes the values 0 and 1 in alternating intervals. (zholud.com)
  • J. Harrison and M. Reiman, On the distribution of multidimensional reflected Brownian motion. (esaim-ps.org)
  • Their state spaces are multidimensional and have boundaries, and it is hard to get their stationary distributions except for a few. (utoronto.ca)
  • We aim to introduce useful thoughts and feasible procedures for finding asymptotic behaviors of the rare events in such multidimensional (mainly two dimensional) processes. (utoronto.ca)
  • In literature, mainly the asymptotical properties of tail estimators are studied. (isiproceedings.org)
  • Intuitively, $s'^2=\frac{1}{n}\sum (x_i-\mu_0)^2$ would definitely be a better estimate of $\sigma^2$, and the distribution of $\frac{\bar x-\mu_0}{s'/\sqrt{n}}$ could be derived (not a Student, presumably). (stackexchange.com)
  • Motivated by the limitations of the inversion approach in estimating the distribution tails for some sampling methods, an asymptotic approach is developed to estimate directly the distribution tails of flow durations and sizes from sampled quantities. (utl.pt)
  • 17 ] studied the inferences of the lifetime performance index with Lomax distribution based on progressive type-IIcensored data. (hindawi.com)
  • Under common functional form assumptions, my model stands out as the only model within that class that is consistent with both Gibrat's law and a thickening right tail. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • as normal samples become larger, there is more chance to see values far into the right tail. (stackexchange.com)
  • Depending on the circumstances of your project, it might be worth your while to see if your samples are large enough to use this asymptotic result. (stackexchange.com)
  • Self-similarity in packetised data networks can be caused by the distribution of file sizes, human interactions and/or Ethernet dynamics. (wikipedia.org)
  • We introduce efficient and accurate estimators of False Discovery Rate and related quantities, and provide methods of estimation of the true null distribution resulting from data preprocessing, as well as techniques to compare it with the theoretical null distribution. (gu.se)
  • On the favourable estimation of fitting heavy tailed data, Computational Statistics, 25:485-503. (isiproceedings.org)
  • The simulation was then used to look for other interesting results such as expected reduction in time to tumor detection due to screening and finding the size distribution of tumors before and after screening. (ndltd.org)
  • begingroup$ @BruceET Thanks for the response - I agree that as the sample size becomes larger, there is more chance to see values that extend further into the right tail. (stackexchange.com)
  • Rich and poor countries differ in the size distribution of business firms. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • In this paper, I document that the right tail of the firm size distribution systematically grows thicker with economic development, both within countries over time and across countries. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • I develop a simple idea search model with both endogenous growth and an endogenous firm size distribution. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • Along the transition, Gibrat's law holds at each date, and the right tail of the firm size distribution becomes monotonically thicker. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • The firm size distribution converges to Zipf's distribution. (zhangchenecon.com)
  • The inversion of the flow IAT distribution from sampled flow quantities, along with the inversion of the flow size distribution (already used in the literature) allows estimating the flow duration distribution. (utl.pt)
  • According to Fox, Levin, and Forde (2013), the example of a grade curve is known as the normal distribution or normal curve. (ukessays.com)
  • There are specific characteristics of a normal curve such as "a smooth, symmetrical distribution that is bell-shapes and unimodal" (Fox, Levin, & Forde, 2013, p. 88). (ukessays.com)
  • From the maximum point of likelihood or central peak, the curve then begins to fall at both tails "extending indefinitely in either direction and getting closer and closer to the baseline without actually touching it" (Fox, Levin, & Fox, 2013, p. 89). (ukessays.com)
  • Thus a normal distribution will result in a normal curve in a bell-shaped curve. (ukessays.com)
  • Why is the bell curve used to represent the normal distribution and not a different shape? (ukessays.com)
  • Mandelbrot established the use of heavy-tail distributions to model real-world fractal phenomena, e.g. (wikipedia.org)
  • We present another elegant way, based on integrability of the model and skew-orthogonal polynomials technique, to obtain the distribution in a much shorter form. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Extreme Value Statistics provides a natural analysis tool: a simple polynomial model for the tail of the distribution of p-values. (gu.se)
  • becomes large, the difference in the deviances follows a chi-squared distribution under the null hypothesis that the simpler model is correctly specified. (thestatsgeek.com)