Regular conditional distributions of continuous max-infinitely divisible random fields

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Abstract: This paper is devoted to the prediction problem in extreme value theory. Our main result is an explicit expression of the regular conditional distribution of a max-stable (or max-infinitely divisible) process eta(t)tinT given observations eta(ti)=yi,1leqileqk. Our starting point is the point process representation of max-infinitely divisible processes by Gin'e, Hahn and Vatan (1990). We carefully analyze the structure of the underlying point process, introduce the notions of extremal function, sub-extremal function and hitting scenario associated to the constraints and derive the associated distributions. This allows us to explicit the conditional distribution as a mixture over all hitting scenarios compatible with the conditioning constraints. This formula extends a recent related result by Wang and Stoev (2011) dealing with the case of spectrally discrete max-stable random fields. We believe this work offers new tools and perspective for prediction in extreme value theory together with numerous potential applications.




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