Parameter Estimation and Seasonal Modification of the Fractional Poisson Process with Application to Vorticity Extremes over the North Atlantic

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Autori principali: Mendel, Merle, Fried, Roland
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author Mendel, Merle
Fried, Roland
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Fried, Roland
contents The fractional Poisson process (FPP) generalizes the standard Poisson process by replacing exponentially distributed return times with Mittag-Leffler distributed ones with an extra tail parameter, allowing for greater flexibility. The FPP has been applied in various fields, such as modeling occurrences of extratropical cyclones in meteorology and solar flares in physics. We propose a new estimation method for the parameters of the FPP, based on minimizing the distance between the empirical and the theoretical distribution at selected quantiles. We conduct an extensive simulation study to evaluate the advantages and limitations of the new estimation method and to compare it with several competing estimators, some of which have not yet been examined in the Mittag-Leffler setting. To enhance the applicability of the FPP in real-world scenarios, particularly in meteorology, we propose a method for incorporating seasonality into the FPP through distance-based weighting. We then analyze the return times of relative vorticity extremes in the North Atlantic-European region using our seasonal modeling approach.
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spellingShingle Parameter Estimation and Seasonal Modification of the Fractional Poisson Process with Application to Vorticity Extremes over the North Atlantic
Mendel, Merle
Fried, Roland
Applications
Methodology
The fractional Poisson process (FPP) generalizes the standard Poisson process by replacing exponentially distributed return times with Mittag-Leffler distributed ones with an extra tail parameter, allowing for greater flexibility. The FPP has been applied in various fields, such as modeling occurrences of extratropical cyclones in meteorology and solar flares in physics. We propose a new estimation method for the parameters of the FPP, based on minimizing the distance between the empirical and the theoretical distribution at selected quantiles. We conduct an extensive simulation study to evaluate the advantages and limitations of the new estimation method and to compare it with several competing estimators, some of which have not yet been examined in the Mittag-Leffler setting. To enhance the applicability of the FPP in real-world scenarios, particularly in meteorology, we propose a method for incorporating seasonality into the FPP through distance-based weighting. We then analyze the return times of relative vorticity extremes in the North Atlantic-European region using our seasonal modeling approach.
title Parameter Estimation and Seasonal Modification of the Fractional Poisson Process with Application to Vorticity Extremes over the North Atlantic
topic Applications
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.08081