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Dependence of maxima in space

Statistics Theory 2015-06-22 v1 Statistics Theory

Abstract

We propose a coefficient that measures the dependence among large values for spatial processes of maxima. Its main properties are: a) kk locations can be taken into account; b) it takes values in [0,1][0,1] and higher values indicate stronger dependence; c) it is independent of the univariate marginal distributions of the random field; d) it can be related with the tail dependence and the extremal coefficients; e) it agrees with the concordance property for multivariate distributions; f) it has as a particular case the variogram from geostatistics; g) it can be easily estimated.

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@article{arxiv.1406.5973,
  title  = {Dependence of maxima in space},
  author = {Helena Ferreira and Luisa Pereira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.5973},
  year   = {2015}
}
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