Abstract
The distributed Hill estimator is a divide-and-conquer algorithm for estimating the extreme value index when data are stored in multiple machines. In applications, estimates based on the distributed Hill estimator can be sensitive to the choice of the number of the exceedance ratios used in each machine. Even when choosing the number at a low level, a high asymptotic bias may arise. We overcome this potential drawback by designing a bias correction procedure for the distributed Hill estimator, which adheres to the setup of distributed inference. The asymptotically unbiased distributed estimator we obtained, on the one hand, is applicable to distributed stored data, on the other hand, inherits all known advantages of bias correction methods in extreme value statistics.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 389-416 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Extremes |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Early online date | 7 May 2022 |
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| Publication status | Published - Sep 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Acknowledgement:s We thank the editors and three referees for their helpful comments and suggestions.Liujun Chen and Deyuan Li’s research is partially supported by the National Nature Science Foundations of
China grants 11971115 and 71661137005.
Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.