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Nonparametric inference on L\'evy measures and copulas

Statistics Theory 2013-08-14 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

In this paper nonparametric methods to assess the multivariate L\'{e}vy measure are introduced. Starting from high-frequency observations of a L\'{e}vy process X\mathbf{X}, we construct estimators for its tail integrals and the Pareto-L\'{e}vy copula and prove weak convergence of these estimators in certain function spaces. Given n observations of increments over intervals of length Δn\Delta_n, the rate of convergence is kn1/2k_n^{-1/2} for kn=nΔnk_n=n\Delta_n which is natural concerning inference on the L\'{e}vy measure. Besides extensions to nonequidistant sampling schemes analytic properties of the Pareto-L\'{e}vy copula which, to the best of our knowledge, have not been mentioned before in the literature are provided as well. We conclude with a short simulation study on the performance of our estimators and apply them to real data.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0417,
  title  = {Nonparametric inference on L\'evy measures and copulas},
  author = {Axel Bücher and Mathias Vetter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0417},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/13-AOS1116 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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