• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.531-550
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• 2023

The estimation of extreme quantiles is one of the main objectives of statistics of extremes (which deals with the estimation of rare events). In this paper, a robust estimator of extreme quantile of a heavy-tailed distribution is considered. The estimator is obtained through the minimum density power divergence criterion on an exponential regression model. The proposed estimator was compared with two estimators of extreme quantiles in the literature in a simulation study. The results show that the proposed estimator is stable to the choice of the number of top order statistics and show lesser bias and mean square error compared to the existing extreme quantile estimators. Practical application of the proposed estimator is illustrated with data from the pedochemical and insurance industries.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.455-463
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• 2004

In this paper, we derive sharp upper and lower expectation bounds on the extreme order statistics from possibly dependent random variables whose marginal distributions are only known. The marginal distributions of the considered random variables may not be the same and the expectation bounds are completely determined by the marginal distributions only.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.85-94
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• 1999

The EARPG(1)/UPS was first developed by Seong (1993) and has been tested for wind pressure time series simulations (Seong and Peterka 1993, 1997, 1998) to prove its excellent performance for generating non-Gaussian time series, in particular, with large amplitude sharp peaks. This paper presents a parametric study focused on simulation of extreme value statistics based on the synthetic realizations of the EARPG(1)/UPS. The method is shown to have a great capability to simulate a wide range of non-Gaussian statistic values and extreme value statistics with exact target sample power spectrum. The variation of skewed long tail in PDF and extreme value distribution are illustrated as function of relevant parameters.

• Wind and Structures
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• 제34권6호
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• pp.469-482
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• 2022

The generalized extreme value distribution (GEVD) is frequently used to fit the block maximum of environmental parameters such as the annual maximum wind speed. There are several methods for estimating the parameters of the GEV distribution, including the least-squares method (LSM). However, the application of the LSM with the expected order statistics has not been reported. This study fills this gap by proposing a fitting method based on the expected order statistics. The study also proposes a plotting position to approximate the expected order statistics; the proposed plotting position depends on the distribution shape parameter. The use of this approximation for distribution fitting is carried out. Simulation analysis results indicate that the developed fitting procedure based on the expected order statistics or its approximation for GEVD is effective for estimating the distribution parameters and quantiles. The values of the probability plotting correlation coefficient that may be used to test the distributional hypothesis are calculated and presented. The developed fitting method is applied to extreme thunderstorm and non-thunderstorm winds for several major cities in Canada. Also, the implication of using the GEVD and Gumbel distribution to model the extreme wind speed on the structural reliability is presented and elaborated.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제39권8호
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• pp.828-832
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• 2015

This study is conducted for the evaluation of corrosion and lifetime prediction of fire extinguishing pipelines in residential buildings. The fire extinguishing pipeline is made of carbon steel. Twenty-four samples were selected among all the fire extinguishing pipelines in a building; the selection was based on specimenspositions, pipeline diameters, and pipeline thickness. Analysis was conducted by using the results of visual inspection, electrochemical potentiodynamic anodic polarization test, pitting depth measurements, and extreme value statistics with the Gumbel distribution. The maximum pitting depth and remaining life were statistically predicted using extreme value statistics. During visual inspection, pitting corrosion was observed in several samples. In addition, extreme value statistics demonstrated that there were several pipelines that were very sensitive to pitting corrosion. However, the pitting corrosion was not critical in all the pipelines; thus, it was necessary to change only those pipelines that were severely corroded.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.319-331
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• 2022

In this paper, we develop a new statistical model to forecast the PM_2.5 level in Seoul, South Korea. The proposed model is based on the extreme quantile regression model with lasso penalty. Various meteorological variables and air pollution variables are considered as predictors in the regression model, and the lasso quantile regression performs variable selection and solves the multicollinearity problem. The final prediction model is obtained by combining various extreme lasso quantile regression estimators and we construct a binary classifier based on the model. Prediction performance is evaluated through the statistical measures of the performance of a binary classification test. We observe that the proposed method works better compared to the other classification methods, and predicts 'very bad' cases of the PM_2.5 level well.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.719-731
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• 2009

This paper deals with properties of the exponentiated extreme value distribution. We derive the approximate maximum likelihood estimators of the scale parameter and location parameter of the exponentiated extreme value distribution based on multiply Type-II censored samples. We compare the proposed estimators in the sense of the mean squared error for various censored samples.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.947-958
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• 2014

집중호우의 특성을 이해하는 것은 수문관리 및 재해방재 등에서 매우 중요하다. 특히 반환주기는 이러한 집중호우의 특성을 나타내는 측정치로 자주 사용된다. 본 논문에서는 베이지안 계층적 모형을 이용하여 강우의 반환주기에 대한 공간구조를 분석하였다. 먼저 국내 62개 지점에서 측정한 강우 강도을 기초로 하여 연간 일일 최대강우량과 특정한 수준을 초과하는 강우량에 대해서 generalized extreme value(GEV)와 generalized Pareto distribution(GPD)를 각각 가정하여 추정하였다. 집중호우 반환주기에 대한 공간구조는 이 GEV 분포와 GPD 분포의 모수에 공간구조를 가지는 다변량 정규분포를 이용하여 설명하였다. 제안된 모형을 국내 76개 지역에서 39년간 측정된 일별 강우량 관측자료에 적용하였다.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제20권1_2호
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• pp.225-238
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• 2006

Generalized order statistics (gos) introduced by Kamps [8] as a unified approach to several models of order random variables (rv's), e.g., (ordinary) order statistics (oos), records, sequential order statistics (sos). In a wide subclass of gos, included oos and sos, the possible limit distribution functions (df's) of the maximum gos are obtained in Nasri-Roudsari [10]. In this paper, for this subclass, as the df of the suitably normalized extreme gos converges on an interval [c, d] to one of possible limit df's of the extreme gos, the continuation of this (weak) convergence on the whole real line to this limit df is proved.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.857-865
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• 2013

집중 호우로 인한 피해가 증가하면서 다양한 기법들을 이용하여 강우량 예측에 대한 관심이 높아졌다. 최근에는 극단분포를 활용하여 강우량을 예측하려는 시도가 늘고 있다. 본 연구에서는 일반화 극단 분포를 활용하여 실제 서울시의 1973년부터 2010년까지 7월달의 사후예측분포를 생성하고, 수치적인 계산을 위해서 MCMC (Markov chain Monte Carlo)알고리즘을 활용하였다. 이 연구를 통해서 사후예측분포의 점추정값들을 비교하였고 2011년 7월달의 자료와 비교해 봤을 때 집중 호우의 확률이 증가한 것을 알 수 있었다.