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Autores principales: Allen, Sam, Koh, Jonathan, Segers, Johan, Ziegel, Johanna
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Publicado: 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03167
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author Allen, Sam
Koh, Jonathan
Segers, Johan
Ziegel, Johanna
author_facet Allen, Sam
Koh, Jonathan
Segers, Johan
Ziegel, Johanna
contents Probabilistic forecasts comprehensively describe the uncertainty in the unknown future outcome, making them essential for decision making and risk management. While several methods have been introduced to evaluate probabilistic forecasts, existing evaluation techniques are ill-suited to the evaluation of tail properties of such forecasts. However, these tail properties are often of particular interest to forecast users due to the severe impacts caused by extreme outcomes. In this work, we introduce a general notion of tail calibration for probabilistic forecasts, which allows forecasters to assess the reliability of their predictions for extreme outcomes. We study the relationships between tail calibration and standard notions of forecast calibration, and discuss connections to peaks-over-threshold models in extreme value theory. Diagnostic tools are introduced and applied in a case study on European precipitation forecasts
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spellingShingle Tail calibration of probabilistic forecasts
Allen, Sam
Koh, Jonathan
Segers, Johan
Ziegel, Johanna
Methodology
Probabilistic forecasts comprehensively describe the uncertainty in the unknown future outcome, making them essential for decision making and risk management. While several methods have been introduced to evaluate probabilistic forecasts, existing evaluation techniques are ill-suited to the evaluation of tail properties of such forecasts. However, these tail properties are often of particular interest to forecast users due to the severe impacts caused by extreme outcomes. In this work, we introduce a general notion of tail calibration for probabilistic forecasts, which allows forecasters to assess the reliability of their predictions for extreme outcomes. We study the relationships between tail calibration and standard notions of forecast calibration, and discuss connections to peaks-over-threshold models in extreme value theory. Diagnostic tools are introduced and applied in a case study on European precipitation forecasts
title Tail calibration of probabilistic forecasts
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03167