TY - JOUR

T1 - The Integrated periodogram of a dependent extremal event sequence

AU - Mikosch, Thomas Valentin

AU - Zhao, Yuwei

PY - 2015

Y1 - 2015

N2 - We investigate the asymptotic properties of the integrated periodogram calculated from a sequence of indicator functions of dependent extremal events. An event in Euclidean space is extreme if it occurs far away from the origin. We use a regular variation condition on the underlying stationary sequence to make these notions precise. Our main result is a functional central limit theorem for the integrated periodogram of the indicator functions of dependent extremal events. The limiting process is a continuous Gaussian process whose covariance structure is in general unfamiliar, but in the i.i.d. case a Brownian bridge appears. In the general case, we propose a stationary bootstrap procedure for approximating the distribution of the limiting process. The developed theory can be used to construct classical goodness-of-fit tests such as the Grenander–Rosenblatt and Cramér–von Mises tests which are based only on the extremes in the sample. We apply the test statistics to simulated and real-life data.

AB - We investigate the asymptotic properties of the integrated periodogram calculated from a sequence of indicator functions of dependent extremal events. An event in Euclidean space is extreme if it occurs far away from the origin. We use a regular variation condition on the underlying stationary sequence to make these notions precise. Our main result is a functional central limit theorem for the integrated periodogram of the indicator functions of dependent extremal events. The limiting process is a continuous Gaussian process whose covariance structure is in general unfamiliar, but in the i.i.d. case a Brownian bridge appears. In the general case, we propose a stationary bootstrap procedure for approximating the distribution of the limiting process. The developed theory can be used to construct classical goodness-of-fit tests such as the Grenander–Rosenblatt and Cramér–von Mises tests which are based only on the extremes in the sample. We apply the test statistics to simulated and real-life data.

U2 - 10.1016/j.spa.2015.02.017

DO - 10.1016/j.spa.2015.02.017

M3 - Journal article

VL - 125

SP - 3126

EP - 3169

JO - Stochastic Processes and their Applications

JF - Stochastic Processes and their Applications

SN - 0304-4149

IS - 8

ER -