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Activity Number: 380 - Advances in Bayesian Extreme Value Analysis
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 10, 2022 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Abstract #322655
Title: Spatial Scale-Aware Tail Dependence Modeling for High-Dimensional Spatial Extremes
Author(s): Likun Zhang* and Mark Risser and Benjamin Shaby
Companies: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Colorado State University
Keywords: Spatial extremes; Nonstationarity; Asymptotic dependence; Asymptotic independence
Abstract:

Extreme events over large spatial domains like the contiguous United States may exhibit highly heterogeneous tail dependence characteristics, yet most spatial extremes models yield only one dependence class over the entire spatial domain. To accurately characterize 'storm dependence' in analysis of extreme events, we propose a mixture component model that achieves flexible dependence properties and allows truly high-dimensional inference for extremes of spatial processes. We modify the popular random scale construction that multiplies a Gaussian random field by a single radial variable; that is, we add non-stationarity to the Gaussian process while allowing the radial variable to vary smoothly across space. As the level of extremeness increases, this single model exhibits both long-range asymptotic independence and short-range weakening dependence strength that leads to either asymptotic dependence or independence. Under the assumption of local stationarity, we make inference on the model parameters using local Bayesian hierarchical models, and run adaptive Metropolis algorithms concurrently via parallelization.


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