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On the speed of convergence of discrete Pickands constants to continuous ones

Part of: Stochastic processes Probabilistic methods, simulation and stochastic differential equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2024

Krzysztof Bisewski  and
Grigori Jasnovidov
Krzysztof Bisewski*
Affiliation:
University of Lausanne
Grigori Jasnovidov*
Affiliation:
Russian Academy of Sciences
*
*Postal address: UNIL-Dorigny, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. Email address: kbisewski@gmail.com
**Postal address: St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, 27 Fontanka, 191023, St. Petersburg, Russia. Email address: griga1995@yandex.ru
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Abstract

In this manuscript, we address open questions raised by Dieker and Yakir (2014), who proposed a novel method of estimating (discrete) Pickands constants $\mathcal{H}^\delta_\alpha$ using a family of estimators $\xi^\delta_\alpha(T)$, $T>0$, where $\alpha\in(0,2]$ is the Hurst parameter, and $\delta\geq0$ is the step size of the regular discretization grid. We derive an upper bound for the discretization error $\mathcal{H}_\alpha^0 - \mathcal{H}_\alpha^\delta$, whose rate of convergence agrees with Conjecture 1 of Dieker and Yakir (2014) in the case $\alpha\in(0,1]$ and agrees up to logarithmic terms for $\alpha\in(1,2)$. Moreover, we show that all moments of $\xi_\alpha^\delta(T)$ are uniformly bounded and the bias of the estimator decays no slower than $\exp\{-\mathcal CT^{\alpha}\}$, as T becomes large.

Keywords

Fractional Brownian motionPickands constantsMonte Carlo simulationdiscretization error

MSC classification

Primary: 60G15: Gaussian processes
Secondary: 60G70: Extreme value theory; extremal processes 65C05: Monte Carlo methods

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Journal of Applied Probability , Volume 62 , Issue 1 , March 2025 , pp. 111 - 135
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Applied Probability Trust

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