Questions tagged [heavy-tailed]
Heavy-tailed distributions have tails that are not exponentially bounded (eg, log-normal & Pareto [heavy right tail], & t [both]). For general questions about fat tails, use the [kurtosis] tag.
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How to interpret Hill estimate of tail index
I'm seeking a non-technical explanation of how to interpret the Hill estimate of the tail index for fat-tailed data, and, if possible, some explanation of seemingly contradictory results that ...
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Question based on the @whuber detailed answer on fat tailed term [duplicate]
There is one accepted answer, but I don't get it quite. In fact that answer raised the few additional questions I liked to share.
1. How would you define the tails of the distribution?
Seams that ...
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Estimation of the mean of the autocorrelation of the time series
I have asked a similar question before, and I was encouraged to repost the question with more details. I am not all that familiar with the jargon, so feel free to edit the post or add the tags.
I ...
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Linear model with heavy tails
I am just approaching statistics and I find myself trying to fit different linear mixed models for my experimental data. My previous experience was mostly on lmer with binomial distributions, which ...
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H2O GLM for heavy-tailed data [closed]
I am trying to run H2O GLM (OLS, lasso, ridge, EN) for stock returns, which have very heavy tails (i.e. potentially infinite variance). Is there a robust loss function modification for this, say Huber ...
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Estimation of the mean of a long tailed distribution
I want to calculate the average of a data set in which elements are distributed according to a PDF that seems to have a quite long tail. This means that when I bin elements of this set I get a PDF ...
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Goodness of fit for heavyLme
I was analyzing repeated measures data with linear mixed models with the lmer function, but due to heavy tailed residuals (image below) I am now using the heavyLme function. I wanted to compare the ...
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How to prove a distribution is or is not heavy tailed?
I've seen the definition for a distribution that has a heavy right tail but I can't seem to prove to myself that a distribution has a heavy right tail or not.
How would you prove that for the normal ...
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Heavy right tail distributions [duplicate]
Does the standard normal distribution have a heavy right tail? How to prove it?
Does the standard log-normal distribution have a heavy right tail? How to prove it?
Thanks!
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Fat tails vs heavy tails
There is a lot of confusion about these two terms also in previous asked questions. I am interested in this part of the Wikipedia article (I am only considering right-tailed distributions):
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Family=scat in mgcv not behaving as expected
I am analysing the eye-tracking data of an experiment in psycholinguistics I ran some time ago, and after fitting a model that captures the data pretty well, I ran a number of model checks and found ...
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Which is the right measure of dispersion to be used as a proxy for risk for a fat tail distribution?
Which is the right measure of dispersion to be used as a proxy for risk for a fat tail distribution ? Standard Deviation, Mean deviation, Value at risk, what else?
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How to measure the level of tail dependence in copula?
In the Clayton copula below, we see that there is stronger lower tail dependence (bottom left corner of Clayton) than upper tail dependence (upper right corner) because the pseudo-observation pairs in ...
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A tail bound for an unknown distribution via sampling
I know that many results exist for making an argument about the tail of a distribution, i.e., for a random variable $X$, one can find a bound $\epsilon$ such that $\Pr[X \geq a]<\epsilon$. Some ...
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In comparison with a standard gaussian random variable, does a distribution with heavy tails have higher kurtosis?
Under a standard gaussian distribution (mean 0 and variance 1), the kurtosis is $3$. Compared to a heavy tail distribution, is the kurtosis normally larger or smaller?
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Sampling from heavy vs light tailed distribution
I am having some issue understanding the behavior of such distributions when generating random numbers.
I was under the impression that heavy tailed distributions have "heavier" tails, so ...
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Short tailed/Long tailed distributions and their effects on p-value interpretation when assuming normality
Can anyone offer better insight into the comparison of how p-values for hypothesis tests are affected when your distribution is short/long tailed but we assume it is normally distributed? I'm ...
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Heteroskedasticity tests: heavy-tailedness of squared estimated errors
I have a time series model and obtain the following distribution of estimated errors:
I suspect that the errors are heteroscedastic in the sense that their variance depends on the level of one or ...
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How do we call a more extreme case of fat tails than a power law?
According to Wikipedia the most extreme case of a fat tail follows a power law:
The most extreme case of a fat tail is given by a distribution whose tail decays like a power law.
That is, if the ...
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Can someone please explain “L1 Regularization is inefficient when the errors in data have heavy tail distribution”
I was reading into L0, L1, and L2 regularization and I found this research paper. On page 2, paragraph 3 it mentions the line
L1 Regularization is inefficient when the errors in data have heavy ...
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linear mixed effect model with symmetrical heavy tailed errors distribution
I am using the Lmer function from the lmerTest in R to test the significant of fixed effects ...
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GAM scaled t family for heavy tailed distributions
I have some heavy tailed data I wish to model using the mgcv package in R with a t-distribution.
Reproducible example:
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Appropriate Data Analysis when Criterion has Heavy-Tailed Distribution
I have a data set where my independent variables (i.e., personality assessment scores) are continuous and follow a normal distribution. The criterion, sales performance, is heavy-tailed and follows a ...
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Regression with heavy-tailed response variable
I have a response variable that is unbounded and continuous, but has heavier tails and violates some of the assumptions of normality (see plots below).
This variable represents selection coefficients ...
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Appropriate to fit lognormal model to data with heavy tail?
I am attempting to standardize recreational fishery CPUE data. I am using a delta approach, with a binomial model fit to the presence/absence data and a lognormal model fit to the positive ...
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Connection between subgaussian/subexponential and exponential family
I am wondering if there is any relationship between subgaussian/subexponential with (one parameter) exponential family.
In particular, is there any sub-family density that belongs to both ...
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Want to know the differences between exponential and heavy-tailed distributions in terms of first and third quartiles
What are the differences between exponential and heavy-tailed distributions, please illustrate this difference by explaining how well the first and 3rd quartiles describe them.
I know what are ...
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Correlation of heavy tailed variables
I have two heavy-tailed random variables and want to know if they are correlated. While I only have estimates for the tail exponent, it is in a ballpark so that variance would normally not exist. The ...
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Bootstrap confidence interval on heavy tailed distribution
I read from Wikipedia:
... if one performs a naive bootstrap
on the sample mean when the underlying population lacks a finite
variance (for example, a power law distribution), then the ...
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Identifying the tail of a heavy tailed distribution [closed]
I have several distributions with a heavy right hand tail as shown below.
I am not interested in analyzing the tail of this distribution. Is there any official definition on where a tail begins on a ...
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Are the skew-normal distribution and the skew-Cauchy distribution heavy-tailed?
I think the title is self-explanatory. I understand that the skewness and the tail behavior of some distribution are completely unrelated as any symmetric distribution will have a skewness of zero ...
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When I fit my data with GEV, I got positive parameter, but when I fit it with GPD, I got negative parameter?
My data is the total annual precipitation in Australia. My purpose is to observe the extreme precipitation on the right end tail. When I fit my data with Generalized Extreme Value, I got positive ...
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How can Pareto(alpha = 5, x_min = 2) be heavy-tailed where alpha is the shape parameter or the tail index?
Point 1 : It's known that, usually, when the tail-index (alpha) is between 0 and 2, of a certain data set, the distribution is considered as heavy-tailed.
Point 2 : It's know that Pareto ...
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Distribution of the inverse square of a non-standard normal random variable multiplied by a constant
It's a somewhat complicated situation and sorry about my phrasing, but it's my first time here. Suppose I have random normal variable $X$ ~ $N( \mu, \sigma^2)$, which represents some true effect(s). ...
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Alternative to Chow test in the case of heavy tailed residual distribution
I would like to check if two subpopulations of my data have the same parameters in a model. Model 1 is based on subpopulation 1 and Model 2 is based on subpopulation 2.
Model 1: $y=x^\alpha + \...
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Quantifying dependence of Cauchy random variables
Given two Cauchy random variables $\theta_1 \sim \mathrm{Cauchy}(x_0^{(1)}, \gamma^{(1)})$ and $\theta_2 \sim \mathrm{Cauchy}(x_0^{(2)}, \gamma^{(2)})$. That are not independent. The dependence ...
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What does it mean to say that $X_1, X_2$ have a “common” Normal distribution?
An exercise question asks
Let $X_1, X_2$ be rvs having a common Normal distribution $N(0,1)$ with $\operatorname{Corr}(X_1, X_2) = \rho$. Calculate the coefficient of upper tail-dependence for all $...
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need explanation about the exponent parameter s in zipf distribution
I need to model the popularity of some requested files from a library with Zipf distribution and I want to simulate it in MATLAB. I don't know what's the effect of parameter s on my result. for ...
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How can I derive the function curve from a histogram of observed data
I'm analysing some datasets that produce heavy tailed data when plotted as a histogram. My initial goal was to attempt to fit a known distribution to my dataset. Thereafter I use to the properties of ...
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Formal definition of the qqline used in a Q-Q plot
I'm doing some distribution fitting work and I'm looking at Q-Q plots and how they can be used visually to interpret goodness of fit.
My data is heavy-tailed so I am looking at Weibull, log-normal, ...
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Is the truncated power law a heavy-tailed distribution?
A heavy-tailed distribution is often defined as a distribution with a tail that is not exponentially bounded.
A truncated power law (or power law with exponential cut-off) is a distribution that ...
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Choosing bins for chi-square testing distributional fits for distribution similar to normal/heavy-tailed
Chi-squared test can be used to check the hypothesis, that given sample
is from the given theoretical distribution.
If the distribution is continuous then we should properly choose bins.
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Transform Heavy right tailed data
I am clustering (K-MEANS) a data 1.7million observations, which displays a heavy-tailed distribution when examined by plot. What is the best transformation to correct it. does log can handle this?
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A question about qqplot
This is my qq plot :
Its concave-convex curve so it indicates light tails. But my mean excess plot :
is increases which means the tail of the distribution of my data is heavy-tailed.
I don't ...
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In a left skewed distribution, how can the range where 95% data lies?
In a simulation that I ran, I have the following graph as a result. How can I find the 95% confidence interval (i.e. the range where 95% of data lies for me).
Since I am not expert in stats, please do ...
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Decomposition of the probability of the sum
I cannot understand how is gotten the following decomposition.
Supposing that $X_1,...,X_n$ random variables i.i.d with heavy tailed distribution $S_n=\sum_{i=1}^nX_i$
In the article that I m ...
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Determining the distribution of data
Hi, I am a student learning financial modelling. I would like some help in determining the distribution of the data given the plots above. I am reluctant to assume normal distribution of the data due ...
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Determining the number of observations within the tail of a given distribution
I am wondering how to determine the number of observations that fall within the tail of a distribution. I am reading a paper and the authors use the assumption that 50 observations need to fall into ...
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Left “tail” of one-tailed distributions
I think of the "tail" of a probability distribution as the behavior of its PDF $f(x)$ as $x\rightarrow +\infty$. For some PDFs with complicated expressions, it is sometimes easy to study their ...
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If the best-fitting distribution has infinite variance, should low observed variance be troubling?
Suppose you have observations which, over the observed range of outcomes, are well-fitted by some distribution like the Pareto that, for certain parameter values, has a an infinite variance. For ...
