Online Program Home
My Program

Abstract Details

Activity Number: 423 - Recent Advancements in the Analysis of Extremes
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 31, 2018 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistics and the Environment
Abstract #330058
Title: Scale Mixture for Extremal Dependence Model
Author(s): Likun Zhang* and Benjamin Shaby
Companies: Penn State University and Penn State University
Keywords: asymptotic dependence and independence; spatial extremes; copula; threshold exceedance; adaptive metropolis algorithm
Abstract:

Max-stable processes has been very helpful in capturing the joint spatial properties of extremes in addition to their marginal variation. However, when modeling environmental processes, it mistakenly identifies the vanishing spatial dependence as genuine asymptotic dependence. Also, weakening dependence does not necessarily imply asymptotic independence, therefore well-known models like the inverted max-stable process will not do well in inferring the asymptotic properties. In our work, we present a class of spatial processes which can be described by a small number of parameters and encompass both asymptotic dependence classes. Additionally, we add white noise to the established model to capture any possible random effects. The model is data-driven to transit smoothly between asymptotic depend and independence. Inference is feasible in moderate dimension using likelihood-based methods and adaptive metropolis algorithm. The model is also applied to real-life data sets that exhibit decaying dependence structure.


Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.

Back to the full JSM 2018 program