1 / 48

Extreme Value Analysis

Extreme Value Analysis. FISH 558 Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management 12/4/2013 Noble Hendrix QEDA Consulting LLC Affiliate Faculty UW SAFS. Lecture Overview. Motivating examples of extreme events Generalized Extreme Value Statistical Development

tyme
Download Presentation

Extreme Value Analysis

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Extreme Value Analysis FISH 558 Decision Analysis in Natural Resource Management 12/4/2013 Noble Hendrix QEDA Consulting LLC Affiliate Faculty UW SAFS

  2. Lecture Overview • Motivating examples of extreme events • Generalized Extreme Value • Statistical Development • Case Study: the white cliffs of Dover • Generalized Pareto Distribution • Statistical Development • Case Study: whale strikes in SE Alaska • Additional resources

  3. Why should we care about extreme events? • They are rare by definition, so why spend much time thinking about them? • Often the consequences of the event have significant impacts to the system – mortality, colonization, episodic recruitment • We tend to focus on averages, but extremes may be more important in some situations. • We may also be interested in estimating extremes beyond what has been observed

  4. Distribution of outcomes

  5. Distribution of outcomes

  6. Distribution of outcomes

  7. Distribution of outcomes

  8. Distribution of outcomes

  9. Motivation100 year floodplain

  10. MotivationSurpassing the 100 year floodplain • Road and home construction based on flood frequency and intensity i.e., 100 year floodplain

  11. MotivationHurricanes

  12. Financial Markets

  13. Central Limit Theorem Consider sequence of iid random variables, X1, … Xn We know that sum Sn = X1+ … + Xn,when normalized lead to the CLT: Statistical Foundations

  14. Generalized Extreme ValueFisher-Tippet Asymptotic Theorem Define maxima of sequence of random variables Mn = max(X1, …, Xn) For normalized maxima, there is also a non-degenerate distribution H(x), which is a GEV distribution

  15. Generalized Extreme ValueCumulative Density Function u – location s – scale v - shape

  16. Generalized Extreme ValueVariants of the GEV Shape parameter v defines several distributions: Gumbel: v = 0 Weibull: v < 0 Fréchet: v > 0

  17. Generalized Extreme ValueShapes of GEV Weibull Gumbel Fréchet

  18. Generalized Extreme ValueApplicability Almost all common continuous distributions converge on H(x) for some value of v • Weibull – beta • Gumbel– normal, lognormal, hyperbolic, gamma, chi-squared • Fréchet – Pareto, inverse gamma, Student t, loggamma

  19. Generalized Extreme ValueMinima What about minima? min(X1, …, Xn) = - max(-X1, … ,-Xn) If H(x) is the limiting distribution for maxima, then 1 – H(-x) is the limiting distribution for minima, so can also be handled

  20. Generalized Extreme ValueEstimation Obtain data from an unknown distribution F • Let’s assume that there is an extreme value distribution Hvfor some value of v • The true distribution of the n-block maximum Mn can be approximated for large enough n with a GEV distribution H(x) • Fit model to repeated observations of an n-block maximum, thus m blocks of size n

  21. Generalized Extreme ValueExample - Data Annual sea level height at Dover, Britain between 1912 and 1992

  22. Generalized Extreme ValueExample - Data Annual sea level height at Dover, Britain between 1912 and 1992

  23. Generalized Extreme ValueR package evd > require(evd) > data(sealevel) >sl.no<-na.omit(sealevel[,1]) > fgev(sl.no) Call: fgev(x = sl.no) Deviance: -5.022368 Estimates loc scale shape 3.59252 0.20195 -0.02107 Standard Errors loc scale shape 0.02642 0.01874 0.07730

  24. Generalized Extreme ValueDiagnostics

  25. Generalized Extreme ValueReturn Level Plot Return level – “how long to wait on average until see another event equal to or more extreme” If H is the distribution of the n-block maximum, the k return level is the 1 – 1/kquantile of H

  26. Generalized Extreme ValueProfile likelihood of parameters

  27. Generalized Extreme ValueLimitations • Limitations of the GEV: • Used for block maxima, e.g., annual precipitation, annual flow, • Only 1 exceedance per block • May ignore some important observations, • Some go so far as to say it is a wasteful method! (McNeil et al. 2005 Quantitative Risk Management, Princeton)

  28. Generalized Pareto Distribution GEV has largely been surpassed by another method for extremes over a threshold Pickands (1975) developed a model for excesses y over threshold a Pickands 1975 Annals of Stats 3:119

  29. Generalized Pareto Distribution a – threshold b – scale v - shape

  30. Generalized Pareto DistributionShapes of GPD Positive shape = limitless loss

  31. Generalized Pareto DistributionApplicability For any continuous distributions that converge on H(x) for some value of v, which was most of the continuous distributions of interest The same distributions will converge on G(x) as an excess distribution as the threshold a is raised

  32. Generalized Pareto DistributionEstimation Obtain data from an unknown distribution F Calculate Yj = Xj – a for Na that exceed threshold a maximize log-likelihood:

  33. Generalized Pareto DistributionThreshold Estimation Have an interesting problem: • Need a value of threshold a that must be high enough to satisfy the theoretical assumptions • Need enough data above the threshold a so that the parameters are well estimated • Use a sample mean residual life plot to help identify a reasonable threshold value a

  34. Generalized Pareto DistributionSample Mean Residual Life Plot Let Y = X– a0. At threshold a0, if Y is GPD with parameters b and vthen E(Y) = b/(1 – v), v< 1 This is true for all thresholds ai> a0, but the scale parameter bi must be appropriate to the threshold ai E(X-ai| X > ai) = (bi+ v*ai)/(1-v), Thus E(X - a| X > a) is a linear function of a where GPD appropriate, so can plot E(x-ai) (where x are our observed data) versus ai. This is the sample mean residual life plot, and confidence intervals added by assuming E(x-a) are approximately normally distributed

  35. Generalized Pareto DistributionExample - Data Quantifying strike rates of whales in southeast Alaska

  36. Generalized Pareto DistributionDistances to Whales Minimum distances (i.e., D < 0) are where losses occur, so transform distance D into a positive loss metric, where value of 100 equates to D = 0

  37. Generalized Pareto DistributionWhale Distance Metric

  38. Generalized Pareto DistributionThreshold determination • Looking for discontinuities in the mean excess, E(x-ai), at different threshold values ai • Identified value of 70 as the threshold (equates to a distance of 300m between whales and ships)

  39. Generalized Pareto DistributionThreshold determination library(POT) mrlplot(w.metric, xlim = c(50,90) ) tcplot(w.metric, u.range = c(50, 90) ) Meanresidual life plot (previousslide) indicatesa = 70 Discontinuity in scale and shapeestimateswhenthresholda > 70

  40. Generalized Pareto DistributionEstimation > fitgpd(w.metric, thresh = 70, est = "mle") Estimator: MLE Deviance: 974.4418 AIC: 978.4418 VaryingThreshold: FALSE Threshold Call: 70 Number Above: 151 Proportion Above: 0.1946 Estimates scale shape 14.8380 -0.4706 Standard Error Type: observed Standard Errors scale shape 1.53542 0.07452 Asymptotic Variance Covariance scale shape scale 2.357530 -0.106864 shape -0.106864 0.005553 Optimization Information Convergence: successful

  41. Generalized Pareto DistributionDiagnostics

  42. Generalized Pareto DistributionLikelihood profiles

  43. Generalized Pareto DistributionLikelihood profiles with different thresholds relative log likelihood - likelihood relative to maximum for that threshold value

  44. Generalized Pareto DistributionEmpirical and Estimated Comparison of empirical (no observed strikes) and GPD model estimates for a = 70 • Since 2000, 2 confirmed strikes • GPD provides better characterization of risk Empirical GPD

  45. Generalized Pareto DistributionReturn Level Return level – how many encounters where whales are less than 300m until a strike? Conditional return level of approx. 500 Absolute return level of approx. 2500 (1 in 5 encounters has an encounter < 300m)

  46. Summary: GEV and EVT • Generalized Extreme Value (GEV) distribution • Used for block maxima, e.g., maximum sea-level per year • Data loss due to only block maxima • Generalized Pareto Distribution (GPD) • Used for points over a threshold • All exceedances above some limit are used • Question about how to deal with selecting a threshold value

  47. Additional ResourcesBooks and Papers Coles, S. 2001. An Introduction to Statistical Modelling of Extreme Values. Springer Series in Statistics. London. McNeil, A. J., Frey, R., & Embrechts, P. 2005. Quantitative risk management: concepts, techniques, and tools. Princeton University Press. Embrechts, P. 1997. Modellingextremal events: for insurance and finance (Vol. 33). Springer. Bayesian GPD Modeling Coles, S. and L. Pericchi. 2003. Anticipating catastrophes through extreme value modeling. Applied Statistics 52(4): 405–416. Jagger. T. H. and J. B. Elsne 2004. Climatology models for extreme hurricane winds near the United States. Journal of Climate 19: 3220-3236.

  48. Additional ResourcesFitting models in R and BUGS A few R packages • Points over Threshold (POT) • Extreme Value Distributions (evd) • extRemes • Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) • evdbayes BUGS • OpenBUGS – GEV and GPD • WinBUGS/JAGS – GPD with 1’s trick

More Related