testC.EVI {EXRQ}

Testing the Constancy of EVI Over Covariates

Description

This function tests whether the extreme value index of Y, gamma(x), is constant or varying across the covariate x by using the test procedure described in Section 3.4 of Wang and Li (2013).

Usage

testC.EVI(y, x, grid.lam = seq(-2, 2, 0.1), grid.k, tau.lam = 0.9,
  u.x = 0, a = 0, M = 2, tol = 1e-04)

Arguments

y

a vector of n untransformed responses

x

a n x p matrix of n observations and p predictors

grid.lam

a grid of points for power-transformation parameter

grid.k

a grid of points for k, the number of upper order statistics involved in Hill estimator

tau.lam

the quantile level used for estimating the transformation parameter

u.x

the proportion to be trimmed in the x direction

a

location shift parameter in the power transformation (introduced to avoid negative y values)

M

a constant larger than one that is used for estimating the c vector and thus K(x) function. The default is two

tol

the tolerance level for checking quantile crossing issue

Value

A list is returned with the following components

lam: the estimated power-transformation parameter

k: the selected tuning parameter k, the number of upper order statistics involved in Hill estimator

Tm: the proposed test statistic

scaledTm: the standardized test statistic

pval.iid: the p-value based on iid assumption, that is, assuming that K(x)=1

pval.nid: the p-value based on estimated K(x)=(X'C)^(1/EVI)

gamma.bar: the pooled EVI estimator

hat.gamma: a N-dimensional vector consisting of the estimated x-dependent EVI at x=xstar

xstar: a N x p matrix of N observations and p predictors

References

Wang, H. and Li, D. (2013). Estimation of conditional high quantiles through power transformation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 108, 1062-1074.

Examples

library(EXRQ)
n=500
tau.e = c(0.99, 0.993, 0.995)
set.seed(12368819)
x1 = runif(n, -1, 1)
x2 = runif(n, -1, 1)
sqrty = 2 + x1 + x2 + (1+0.8*x1)*rpareto(n, 0.5)
x = as.matrix(cbind(x1, x2))
y = sqrty^2
out = testC.EVI(y, x, grid.lam=seq(-0.5, 1.5, 0.1), grid.k=50, tau.lam=0.9)
(Tval = out$scaledTm)
(pval.iid = out$pval.iid)
(pval.nid = out$pval.nid)