Extreme value methods for estimating rare events in Utopia

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Main Authors: André, L. M., Campbell, R., D'Arcy, E., Farrell, A., Healy, D., Kakampakou, L., Murphy, C., Murphy-Barltrop, C. J. R., Speers, M.
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author André, L. M.
Campbell, R.
D'Arcy, E.
Farrell, A.
Healy, D.
Kakampakou, L.
Murphy, C.
Murphy-Barltrop, C. J. R.
Speers, M.
author_facet André, L. M.
Campbell, R.
D'Arcy, E.
Farrell, A.
Healy, D.
Kakampakou, L.
Murphy, C.
Murphy-Barltrop, C. J. R.
Speers, M.
contents To capture the extremal behaviour of complex environmental phenomena in practice, flexi\-ble techniques for modelling tail behaviour are required. In this paper, we introduce a variety of such methods, which were used by the Lancopula Utopiversity team to tackle the EVA (2023) Conference Data Challenge. This data challenge was split into four challenges, labelled C1-C4. Challenges C1 and C2 comprise univariate problems, where the goal is to estimate extreme quantiles for a non-stationary time series exhibiting several complex features. For these, we propose a flexible modelling technique, based on generalised additive models, with diagnostics indicating generally good performance for the observed data. Challenges C3 and C4 concern multivariate problems where the focus is on estimating joint extremal probabilities. For challenge C3, we propose an extension of available models in the multivariate literature and use this framework to estimate extreme probabilities in the presence of non-stationary dependence. Finally, for challenge C4, which concerns a 50 dimensional random vector, we employ a clustering technique to achieve dimension reduction and use a conditional modelling approach to estimate extremal probabilities across independent groups of variables.
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spellingShingle Extreme value methods for estimating rare events in Utopia
André, L. M.
Campbell, R.
D'Arcy, E.
Farrell, A.
Healy, D.
Kakampakou, L.
Murphy, C.
Murphy-Barltrop, C. J. R.
Speers, M.
Methodology
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To capture the extremal behaviour of complex environmental phenomena in practice, flexi\-ble techniques for modelling tail behaviour are required. In this paper, we introduce a variety of such methods, which were used by the Lancopula Utopiversity team to tackle the EVA (2023) Conference Data Challenge. This data challenge was split into four challenges, labelled C1-C4. Challenges C1 and C2 comprise univariate problems, where the goal is to estimate extreme quantiles for a non-stationary time series exhibiting several complex features. For these, we propose a flexible modelling technique, based on generalised additive models, with diagnostics indicating generally good performance for the observed data. Challenges C3 and C4 concern multivariate problems where the focus is on estimating joint extremal probabilities. For challenge C3, we propose an extension of available models in the multivariate literature and use this framework to estimate extreme probabilities in the presence of non-stationary dependence. Finally, for challenge C4, which concerns a 50 dimensional random vector, we employ a clustering technique to achieve dimension reduction and use a conditional modelling approach to estimate extremal probabilities across independent groups of variables.
title Extreme value methods for estimating rare events in Utopia
topic Methodology
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09825