| GevMdaEstimation | R Documentation | 
A collection and description functions to estimate 
the parameters of the GEV distribution. To model
the GEV three types of approaches for parameter 
estimation are provided: Maximum likelihood
estimation, probability weighted moment method,
and estimation by the MDA approach. MDA includes
functions for the Pickands, Einmal-Decker-deHaan, 
and Hill estimators together with several plot 
variants.
Maximum Domain of Attraction estimators:
| hillPlot | shape parameter and Hill estimate of the tail index, | 
| shaparmPlot | variation of shape parameter with tail depth. | 
hillPlot(x, start = 15, ci = 0.95, 
    doplot = TRUE, plottype = c("alpha", "xi"), labels = TRUE, ...)
shaparmPlot(x, p = 0.01*(1:10), xiRange = NULL, alphaRange = NULL,
    doplot = TRUE, plottype = c("both", "upper"))
    
shaparmPickands(x, p = 0.05, xiRange = NULL,  
    doplot = TRUE, plottype = c("both", "upper"), labels = TRUE, ...) 
shaparmHill(x, p = 0.05, xiRange = NULL,  
    doplot = TRUE, plottype = c("both", "upper"), labels = TRUE, ...)
shaparmDEHaan(x, p = 0.05, xiRange = NULL,  
    doplot = TRUE, plottype = c("both", "upper"), labels = TRUE, ...)
| alphaRange,xiRange | [saparmPlot] -  | 
| ci | [hillPlot] -  | 
| doplot | a logical. Should the results be plotted?
 | 
| labels | [hillPlot] -  | 
| plottype | [hillPlot] -  | 
| p | [qgev] -  | 
| start | [hillPlot] -  | 
| x | [dgev][devd] -  | 
| ... | [gevFit] -  | 
Parameter Estimation:
gevFit and gumbelFit estimate the parameters either 
by the probability weighted moment method, method="pwm" or 
by maximum log likelihood estimation method="mle". The 
summary method produces diagnostic plots for fitted GEV or Gumbel 
models.
Methods:
print.gev, plot.gev and summary.gev are
print, plot, and summary methods for a fitted object of class 
gev. Concerning the summary method, the data are 
converted to unit exponentially distributed residuals under null 
hypothesis that GEV fits. Two diagnostics for iid exponential data 
are offered. The plot method provides two different residual plots 
for assessing the fitted GEV model. Two diagnostics for 
iid exponential data are offered. 
Return Level Plot:
gevrlevelPlot calculates and plots the k-block return level 
and 95% confidence interval based on a GEV model for block maxima, 
where k is specified by the user. The k-block return level 
is that level exceeded once every k blocks, on average. The 
GEV likelihood is reparameterized in terms of the unknown return 
level and profile likelihood arguments are used to construct a 
confidence interval. 
Hill Plot:
The function hillPlot investigates the shape parameter and 
plots the Hill estimate of the tail index of heavy-tailed data, or 
of an associated quantile estimate. This plot is usually calculated 
from the alpha perspective. For a generalized Pareto analysis of 
heavy-tailed data using the gpdFit function, it helps to 
plot the Hill estimates for xi. 
Shape Parameter Plot:
The function shaparmPlot investigates the shape parameter and 
plots for the upper and lower tails the shape parameter as a function 
of the taildepth. Three approaches are considered, the Pickands 
estimator, the Hill estimator, and the
Decker-Einmal-deHaan estimator.
gevSim
returns a vector of data points from the simulated series.
gevFit
returns an object of class gev describing the fit.
print.summary
prints a report of the parameter fit.
summary
performs diagnostic analysis. The method provides two different 
residual plots for assessing the fitted GEV model.  
gevrlevelPlot
returns a vector containing the lower 95% bound of the confidence 
interval, the estimated return level and the upper 95% bound. 
hillPlot
displays a plot.
shaparmPlot
returns a list with one or two entries, depending on the
selection of the input variable both.tails. The two 
entries upper and lower determine the position of 
the tail. Each of the two variables is again a list with entries 
pickands, hill, and dehaan. If one of the 
three methods will be discarded the printout will display zeroes.
GEV Parameter Estimation:
If method "mle" is selected the parameter fitting in gevFit 
is passed to the internal function gev.mle or gumbel.mle
depending on the value of gumbel, FALSE or TRUE.
On the other hand, if method "pwm" is selected the parameter 
fitting in gevFit is passed to the internal function 
gev.pwm or gumbel.pwm again depending on the value of 
gumbel, FALSE or TRUE.
Alec Stephenson for R's evd and evir package, and 
Diethelm Wuertz for this R-port.
Coles S. (2001); Introduction to Statistical Modelling of Extreme Values, Springer.
Embrechts, P., Klueppelberg, C., Mikosch, T. (1997); Modelling Extremal Events, Springer.
  
## Load Data:
   library(timeSeries)
   x = as.timeSeries(data(danishClaims))
   colnames(x) <- "Danish"
   head(x)
   
## hillPlot -
   # Hill plot of heavy-tailed Danish fire insurance data 
   par(mfrow = c(1, 1))
   hillPlot(x, plottype = "xi")
   grid()
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