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高斯Copula尾部的有效估计

Efficient Estimation in the Tails of Gaussian Copulas

Kalyani Nagaraj, Jie Xu, Raghu Pasupathy, Soumyadip Ghosh

摘要:

我们考虑高斯copula尾部的有效估计问题。我们特别关注的是在多维约束集上估计期望,这些约束集在高斯copula下有一个小的隐含测度。我们提出了三个估计,所有这些都依赖于一个简单的想法:确定某些\emph{dominating}点(S)的可行集,并适当地转移和缩放指数分布,以供后续使用的重要性抽样措施。正如我们所示,这种估计的效率关键取决于局部结构的可行集周围的支配点。我们提出的估计$\estOpt$的第一个是“全信息”的估计,积极利用这种局部结构,以实现有限的相对误差在高斯设置。第二个和第三个估计量$\estExp$,$\estLap$是“部分信息”估计量,当关于约束集的完整信息不可用时使用,它们不表现出有界的相对误差,但显示出达到多项式效率。我们提供了尖锐的渐近所有三个估计。对于NORTA设置没有现成的信息的支配点或可行的集合结构的假设,我们构造了一个多项式混合的部分信息估计$\estLap$导致第四估计$\estNt$多项式效率,并通过ecoNORTA算法实现。对各种算例问题的数值结果是显著的,并与理论相一致。

英文摘要:

We consider the question of efficient estimation in the tails of Gaussian copulas. Our special focus is estimating expectations over multi-dimensional constrained sets that have a small implied measure under the Gaussian copula. We propose three estimators, all of which rely on a simple idea: identify certain \emph{dominating} point(s) of the feasible set, and appropriately shift and scale an exponential distribution for subsequent use within an importance sampling measure. As we show, the efficiency of such estimators depends crucially on the local structure of the feasible set around the dominating points. The first of our proposed estimators $\estOpt$ is the "full-information" estimator that actively exploits such local structure to achieve bounded relative error in Gaussian settings. The second and third estimators $\estExp$, $\estLap$ are "partial-information" estimators, for use when complete information about the constraint set is not available, they do not exhibit bounded relative error but are shown to achieve polynomial efficiency. We provide sharp asymptotics for all three estimators. For the NORTA setting where no ready information about the dominating points or the feasible set structure is assumed, we construct a multinomial mixture of the partial-information estimator $\estLap$ resulting in a fourth estimator $\estNt$ with polynomial efficiency, and implementable through the ecoNORTA algorithm. Numerical results on various example problems are remarkable, and consistent with theory.

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